A richly ambitious novel about people caught between two cultures and two times: the modern-day Southwest, and the places of the old ones, the native peoples of the Americas, in an earlier time that is both real and supra-real.

"Lee Marmon, known as "the blue-eyed Indian," is America's most renowned Native American photographer, and this is the first book to showcase his breathtaking work. At the age of ten, living on the Laguna Pueblo lands of New Mexico, Lee entered the ranks of professional photographers when he earned two dollars for photographing a truck wreck for a local insurance company. The photo shoot had been his father's idea; he handed his son a camera and said,...