Writing
The setting of the book is in the mid 1940s when there was not yet, at least where I grew up, much development of the American Dream. It was a time when wagons and horses were still the means of travelling about. I grew up in a completely isolated place on Palmer Mesa around "Poppin' Rock Ranch," always driving the sheep into Salt Creek Canyon, until one day I saw a team of mules led by a white guy across the mesa on an old wagon road. He met up with my grandmother on a cross trail. This was in 1948. I was sitting in the biggest of the biggest juniper tree, hiding in it. They, Sunny and Grandmother, exchanged their greeting in a strange language that caught my ear, a spirit of a language, and it touched my heart. So I wanted to learn it! And so the story of my book Miracle Hill is of a young Navajo boy who strives to learn English, which he regarded as a powerful tool. And he was right.
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