ASIN: B00C92MYSI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 265
Welcome to the Navajo Reservation, a little corner of the world that is so foreign, yet so familiar. In Reservation Summer, Jason Lefthand takes us to Fort Defiance, a town nestled in a cozy valley right next to the New Mexico border. It is a place where rez rockets leave mighty columns of smoke as kids watch from atop the red plateau. It is where young hearts are won and broken on the two-step floor. In his collection of stories, Jay and his friends are chased by a spirit turkey; Jay takes a menial chapter house job and discovers Ace Of Base; a music festival springs up in the middle of Window Rock and suddenly the capital is covered in black Slayer t-shirts; Jay and his brother must survive their sister’s kinaalda (a coming of age ceremony where grandmas rule with iron fists). This is the rez, where a Navajo boy can create trouble with each new dawn.
