![]() Still, the baffling mystery and the frequent surprises along the way will reward readers who stick with this story to the end. And when they speak, nearly all of her characters sound alike regardless of age, gender and ethnicity. ![]() ![]() Potenza does a decent job of evoking the reservation’s stark natural landscape, but she peppers her narrative with granular, often irrelevant, physical descriptions of her characters, including many minor ones. However, her prose, while better than workmanlike, falls short of the simple elegance of the late Tony Hillerman’s 18 novels about the exploits of a pair of Navajo police officers. The author, a biochemistry professor at New Mexico State University, is the pre-publication winner of the annual Hillerman Prize for the best novel set in the Southwest. ![]()
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