In this time of Big Change, long foretold...is it time, once again, to act?
As a mixed race, modern-day, New Mexico pueblo 21-year-old, Lisel Martinez has been glad to be safely home, co-creating an odd kind of shared life with three California housemates picked up along the way when -- once upon a time -- she was (much less safely) trying to survive out in the larger world.
Personally, she could be content to stay puttering around in the ever-expanding garden out behind her ramshackle home for the rest of her life...
Except life for indians (or maybe everybody these days?) just seems to keep getting harder, even after everything her people have already been through.
This novel-sized, color photo-illustrated, quirky combination of fiction + contemporary/historical fact explores whether the old-time First Nation grandmothers might be correct: during times of upheaval, when Earth is in the process of again being reborn, it is imperative we act.
And Lisel's friends seem to have come up with a once-in-a-lifetime plan...