{"product_id":"ceremonial-cycles-will-michelet-9798396735613","title":"Ceremonial Cycles: Book Two of the Norzona Quartet","description":"The second of Northern Arizona's major ethnic groups, the Native Americans primarily of the\u003cbr\u003eHopi and Navajo Indian tribes, are the focus of this second novel of Will Michelet's \"Norzona Quartet.\"\u003cbr\u003eThis novel revolves around the intersecting lives of its three principal characters: Paul Tse, born of a Hopi\u003cbr\u003emother and a Navajo father in Tuba City near the border of the Reservations for those two tribes north\u003cbr\u003eof Flagstaff; Gloria, his wife and a member of the Tohono O'odham Tribe near Tucson, whom he met\u003cbr\u003ewhile a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.; and Paul's contemporary and friend Wayne\u003cbr\u003eLomaheftewa who, though without a college degree, becomes a charismatic religious leader across the\u003cbr\u003eHopi Reservation.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Paul graduates from the University of Arizona law School and returns home with his wife\u003cbr\u003eand their kids to work for the Hopi General Counsel's Office, the relationship between Paul and Wayne\u003cbr\u003eexplodes into a controversial murder that is tried in the Tucson federal court. Then, however, the trial's\u003cbr\u003esurprising conclusion allows the sacred Hopi annual cycle to continue into the future.\u003cbr\u003eThe story itself plays out against the backdrop of this brilliant Hopi ceremonial cycle performed\u003cbr\u003eeach year for more than the last millennium. It allows one through this book to gain a deeper sense of\u003cbr\u003ehow the Hopi have survived and flourished on their three mesas in northeast Arizona.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Will Michelet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798396735613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Will Michelet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49167678505215,"sku":"9798396735613","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ceremonial-cycles-will-michelet-9798396735613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}