| Description |
281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
West word fiction |
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West word fiction series.
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| Summary |
"Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines and her nights trying to escape her bitter past. When she befriends Sarah, a young Native American woman who is hired to cook in the casino coffee shop, her life begins to change. Maggie finds herself falling in love with a memory-haunted Vietnam veteran and warily begins to hope that together they can find peace. Then Sarah is mysteriously murdered, and Sarah's spirit enlists Maggie to accompany her on a quest for the wisdom that she needs in order to make her final departure from earth. The story ranges from smoky casinos into the harsh magnificence of the desert and to the reservation where Sarah's people are trying to preserve their culture and find their place in a modern world that seems to want them to be either shamans or losers." "Going Through Ghosts is a moving novel about a -- |
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search for healing after pain and loss. Sojourner's characters are powerfully drawn, and the Mojave setting has rarely been described as sensitively or truthfully. This is a memorable story of love and loss, redemption and solace, told by one of the West's finest writers." --Book Jacket |
| Subject |
Casinos -- Nevada -- Fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Religion -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Mojave Desert http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086496 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2009036619 |
| ISBN |
9780874178098 paperback alkaline paper |
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0874178096 paperback alkaline paper |
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