The sequel to The Diamond Doorknob
When the Dead Dream by MariJo Moore
ISBN: 978-0-9767581-5-0
PB, 172 pp
20.00 rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING Candler, NC
Released November 2008
back cover quotes
I cannot believe anyone with any degree of perception can read this book and not be changed by it. Changed, certainly, in the way they see people who are different, but also in relation to all that is around them, to time, life and the universe, and ultimately how they view themselves.
- Doris Seale
Author of Blood Salt, Ghost Dance, coeditor/ author of Through Indian Eyes, A Broken Flute, and cofounder of Oyate
MariJo Moore is a rare spirit and a real writer. Listen to her.
- Michael Malone
Author of Handling Sin and The Killing Club
When the Dead Dream is a compelling, richly populated novel. Many characters come convincingly to life, forming Cloud Smoker's Cherokee and white communities, through which she journeys, precariously managing her gift of sight. MariJo Moore's sequel to The Diamond Doorknob anticipates a healing-through-writing-and is as reassuringly rooted as that novel was painfully searching.
- Rob Neufeld
Author of A Popular History of Western North Carolina: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers, Asheville's River Arts District, and book reviewer for the Asheville Citizen-Times
MariJo Moore writes with bravery and wonder of her complex, difficult, and beautiful life as a Native woman bound to her homelands, and bound to the truth.
- Jane Haladay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, UNC-Pembroke
One of the deep pleasures of reading is giving oneself over to a gifted storyteller for the duration of the trip. MariJo Moore eases our transition into her several worlds and then holds us there, willing us to travel roads that are winding, difficult and revelatory. When the Dead Dream may be her masterwork-a sinuous and stony path where we encounter monsters as well as jewels. It is not for the faint-hearted and not to be missed.
- H. Byron Ballard
Author of Back to the Garden and Earth Works
(art collage on first page, mixed media copyright MariJo Moore, 2008)
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