Bøger af Will Michelet

From a bizarre and raucous weekend jaunt along the Mexican border spinning out in Nogales and ending to the west above the Pacific's blue and tranquil waters below Tijuana, Eric Lange's present to his son Steve for his 21st birthday establishes an unusually close bond between the two men. But upon their return home to Prescott, Arizona, Eric decides to change his career track as a machinist and moves to the Verde Valley on "the other side of the mountain" to sell the weed he will mostly cultivate at his isolated garden in Sycamore Canyon.But after Steve becomes the primary pusher for this marijuana, the currents of the 21st century catches the Lange family up. This happens especially after the divorced Eric's daughter Mandita's also comes to the Verde to work to work on his new girlfriend's campaign for the Arizona state legislature based largely upon her support of a new Verde County insulated from the political clout of Prescott, the seat of long- extant Yavapai County. But then an unimaginable family tragedy occurs for which Eric is blamed, and he flees south of the border to escape responsibility for it.When the reach of his family of origin further betrays him in Mexico, though, he takes to his heels once more to seek refuge among the vibrant surviving culture of the Maya in Guatemala. There Eric learns and grows and starts another family of his own, but will he be able to bring his newfound maturity back to the lovely green and shadowed banks of the Verde in Arizona that he still felt remained his home. Book Three of the Norzona Quartet

The second of Northern Arizona's major ethnic groups, the Native Americans primarily of theHopi and Navajo Indian tribes, are the focus of this second novel of Will Michelet's "Norzona Quartet."This novel revolves around the intersecting lives of its three principal characters: Paul Tse, born of a Hopimother and a Navajo father in Tuba City near the border of the Reservations for those two tribes northof Flagstaff; Gloria, his wife and a member of the Tohono O'odham Tribe near Tucson, whom he metwhile a student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.; and Paul's contemporary and friend WayneLomaheftewa who, though without a college degree, becomes a charismatic religious leader across theHopi Reservation.When Paul graduates from the University of Arizona law School and returns home with his wifeand their kids to work for the Hopi General Counsel's Office, the relationship between Paul and Wayneexplodes into a controversial murder that is tried in the Tucson federal court. Then, however, the trial'ssurprising conclusion allows the sacred Hopi annual cycle to continue into the future.The story itself plays out against the backdrop of this brilliant Hopi ceremonial cycle performedeach year for more than the last millennium. It allows one through this book to gain a deeper sense ofhow the Hopi have survived and flourished on their three mesas in northeast Arizona.

There is a school of thought that finds Mao Tse-Tung the most important personage of the entire 20th Century. Certainly, if the criterion for that status is a positive impact on the greatest number, this unlikely choice makes more sense, given that his native land still today holds off India in its position of having earth's greatest number of human inhabitants at nearly a billion and a half at last count. Mao was the eldest son to survive infancy of Mao Yichang, a prosperous farmer of the Shaoshan Valley in the southern Hunan Province, so it was unlikely he came to glory as the dedicated MarQist-Leninist who would emerge to lead the famed Long March of 1934-35 away from the Civil War with Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists in the south. As a result from the sanctuary he reached in the northern Shaanxi mountains where the Sino rice-civilization had devolved as much as two and half million generations earlier, Mao was the clear choice to assume the leadership of his Communist Party in the Chinese Revolution that followed World War II to finally restore the prosperity and self-esteem of the most populous people on earth who for decades had been effectively colonized by the West.

The Southwest of the US was till the mid-19th century territory of Mexico, so it is not surprising that its population today is still substantially people of Mexican origin. In perhaps the most scenic part of this beautiful region, the high country of contemporary Northern Arizona has often been built and preserved by its Mexican-Americans, whose native language Spanish lives on in its street signs, place names, and person and business appellations. The first novel of Will Michelet's 'Norzona Quartet', Loca, Si 0 No, follows the Sandoval Family in the lovely town of Sheldon where Locaria and Fidencio bore and raised their fourteen children, most of whom still live there. Locaria's tumultuous marriage to her first and only love is not atypical of the struggles of many Norzona Mexicans, who with their signature food and emotional music have more than survived in their homeland, they have exulted in it. See and feel in Loca as Locaria and her progeny find ways to celebrate four generations of their labor through familial love and conflict. In the process, the reader will come to more deeply appreciate the texture of this unique the corner of the world.

Jesse La Follette, an imagined social reformer, advocates for a program of transformative political change for Wisconsin in the mid-twentieth century that is eerily reminiscent of the early Christian Prophets. When he threatens too many of the powers that were then, though, he escapes the fate that Jesus Christ suffered two thousand years before only by the skin of his teeth and flees to a surprising and ironic refuge nearby to quietly continue his teaching.While in India as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Will Michelet learned about language as a means of connection to others and as a result became able to communicate to all of its various castes. This facility affected a commitment to the equal importance of each and every person in him. You will see this thread in his Jesse, a Man Good Enough.