Seducing the Spirits, Louise Young
Seducing the Spirits, Louise Young
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Seducing the Spirits

Author: Louise Young

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 11 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2009

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

When Jenny, a graduate student in ornithology, is assigned to a birding project in a remote area of Panama, she is given one directive by her superior: Don't piss anyone off. Almost immediately, this proves difficult, for the study site is located near an indigenous village. At first, Jenny finds the Kuna people to be a prickly lot, quick to take offense. But as the weeks pass, she becomes better acquainted with the natives, including Pedro, a man cynical and detached from his own culture; shy Iris, who married and then was abandoned by Jenny's predecessor; and Ceferino, with whom Jenny shares a passion for the natural world. She also encounters outsiders with their own agendas for the Kunas and the surrounding rainforest. Jenny becomes drawn into the Kuna culture as it struggles to retain a traditional identity in the face of erosion from both without and within.

About Louise Young

Louise Young has worked with the indigenous Kuna people of Panama since 1996 as a cultural guide and technical advisor to a women’s cooperative.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wisteria on July 19, 2010

Seducing the Spirits[return]by Louise Young[return]Book: 320 pages[return]Publisher: Permanent Press[return][return][return]When you read Seducing the Spirits, I m not quite sure who is really being seduced. As the reader, you will find yourself unable to avoid the seduction and allure creat......more

Goodreads review by Kaitlin Blaker on November 18, 2009

Kaitlin Blaker Mrs. Pulliam English 12 18 November 2009 Seducing the Spirits This book is all about understanding. It's easy to see after reading it and finding out a little bit about the author. Louise Young wrote Seducing the Spirits to help people understand the Kuna Indians of South America. Not onl......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on October 29, 2010

Louise Young’s novel Seducing the Spirits might provide a wise seduction for many spirits: The readers’ spirits most certainly and delightfully; that tortured American scientist spirit that wants to believe in innocence despite the ravages of power; the legalistic religious spirit that paints the wo......more

Goodreads review by Clark on August 25, 2009

Louise Young’s debut novel, Seducing the Spirits, shows promising potential by a new author taking center stage in the literary world. Starting with a slow and peaceful pace, it quickly traps you into becoming involved in the jungle world of a 23-year-old graduate student who is studying harpy eagle......more

Goodreads review by stormhawk on October 06, 2009

I was introduced to Seducing the Spirits through the FirstReads program at goodreads.com. This is not the sort of book that I would ordinarily choose, however, the description was interesting enough that I responded to the offer to read and review this book. Seducing the Spirits is the fictionalized......more