Coyote Tales

Wide Reeds, Arizona, is a small town on the Navajo reservation that you wont find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, and their fears to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. Coyote (M?ii)the trickster, thief, warrior, wizard, coward, clown, and saviorhas come to call; and over the course of a year, life becomes strangely wonderful and terrifying. In nine short stories and a novella that have been called part Sherman Alexie and part Stephen King,Coyote Talesleads listeners through the harsh and beautiful world of the modern Navajo Nation. Tracing the traditional yearly cycle of Early Dawn, Blue Daylight, and Evening Twilight, the separate paths of each story lead to the same Folding Darkness. And the only way out of that darkness is to follow the tracks of Coyote.