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Better Together
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The search for bigger and better bugs pushes this uneven Hot Zone clone into supernatural territory. Set in northern Arizona, the novel follows the efforts of two Native American medicos?part-Choctaw physician Push Foster and Navajo Health and Human Services official Sonny Brokeshoulder?to arrest the spread of "Navajo flu," a virulent respiratory inflection that targets reservation dwellers and kills in hours. Although their biological investigation throws the men together (giving them plenty of time to banter and learn Hopi and Navajo lore from their patients), by the end of the novel it hasn't contributed much to their understanding of the epidemic, which, according to Hopi Elder Clifford Lomaquaptewa, is caused by witchcraft, "the most heinous of all Navajo crimes." Querry (The Death of Bernadette Lefthand) can't seem to make up his mind whether the Navajo history, mythology and spiritual beliefs included in his novel are the real story or window dressing for the buddy tale of Foster and Brokeshoulder. Small wonder that, at the novel's end, his heroes and readers are equally baffled by the mysterious Navajo flu.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This second novel by the author of The Death of Bernadette Lefthand (LJ 7/93) is an odd mix: Tony Hillerman meets The Hot Zone meets Stephen King. A mysterious virus is killing young Navajos on their Arizona reservation. Dr. Push Foster, newly commissoned into the U.S. Public Health Service (and a mixed blood Choctaw like his creator) seeks a scientific solution to the deadly epidemic. Although the illness is finally identified as a hantavirus (the novel was inspired by actual events that occurred in Arizona and New Mexico in 1993), Clifford Lomaquaptewa, a Hopi medicine man, senses a more sinister cause: the theft of a sacred Hopi tablet has unleashed an evil force, a Navajo witch practicing bad medicine. While Querry's description of Navajo and Hopi cultures and mythologies is fascinating, his combining elements of medical and supernatural thrillers doesn't quite work. Also, his constant shifting of narrative points of view is confusing and exhausting. Still, fans of Hillerman's mysteries will enjoy this.?Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The search for bigger and better bugs pushes this uneven Hot Zone clone into supernatural territory. Set in northern Arizona, the novel follows the efforts of two Native American medicos?part-Choctaw physician Push Foster and Navajo Health and Human Services official Sonny Brokeshoulder?to arrest the spread of "Navajo flu," a virulent respiratory inflection that targets reservation dwellers and kills in hours. Although their biological investigation throws the men together (giving them plenty of time to banter and learn Hopi and Navajo lore from their patients), by the end of the novel it hasn't contributed much to their understanding of the epidemic, which, according to Hopi Elder Clifford Lomaquaptewa, is caused by witchcraft, "the most heinous of all Navajo crimes." Querry (The Death of Bernadette Lefthand) can't seem to make up his mind whether the Navajo history, mythology and spiritual beliefs included in his novel are the real story or window dressing for the buddy tale of Foster and Brokeshoulder. Small wonder that, at the novel's end, his heroes and readers are equally baffled by the mysterious Navajo flu.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This second novel by the author of The Death of Bernadette Lefthand (LJ 7/93) is an odd mix: Tony Hillerman meets The Hot Zone meets Stephen King. A mysterious virus is killing young Navajos on their Arizona reservation. Dr. Push Foster, newly commissoned into the U.S. Public Health Service (and a mixed blood Choctaw like his creator) seeks a scientific solution to the deadly epidemic. Although the illness is finally identified as a hantavirus (the novel was inspired by actual events that occurred in Arizona and New Mexico in 1993), Clifford Lomaquaptewa, a Hopi medicine man, senses a more sinister cause: the theft of a sacred Hopi tablet has unleashed an evil force, a Navajo witch practicing bad medicine. While Querry's description of Navajo and Hopi cultures and mythologies is fascinating, his combining elements of medical and supernatural thrillers doesn't quite work. Also, his constant shifting of narrative points of view is confusing and exhausting. Still, fans of Hillerman's mysteries will enjoy this.?Wilda Williams, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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