Ancient Child

An intriguing combination of myth fiction and storytelling that demonstrates the continuing power and range of Momaday''s creative vision....These are magical words. Listen. —Washington PostPulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic often lyrical contemporary novel. It is the story of Locke Setman known as Set a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear-boy. When he meets Grey a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man''s tormented search for his identity—a quintessential American novel and a great one.