Hail Chanter

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Author of<em> Evil Chasing Way Hand Trembler and Sungazer</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hail Chanter</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Book Four in the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Star Song </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>series features one man winding and wending his way through Southwestern real-time and dream-time. This novel serves as the final healing rapture of the previous three books: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Evil Chasing Way</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hand Trembler </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Sungazer</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the earlier novels the author/storyteller used the ancient art of singing to a star hand trembling and praying. The result from the traditions of the Navajo Old Ways turns a burning light into a healing one. This process took place on an operating table and in a radiation chamber. Hausman states:</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I followed the sacred speech that a star makes. It lived within me and healed both the inside and outside of me.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The emergence ceremony in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Hail Chanter</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> intertwines a mixture of ancient religion with modern medicine. The novel portrays Winter Thunder blowing apart a human form making it all come together. The healer said:</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It all comes together like a bunch of broken parts waiting to be annealed all over again.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This captivating story maintains Jack Andrews as the hero from the first three novels while also exploring the character of Jay DeGroat a Navajo friend of Gerald's for fifty years.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...Hausman honors Native American philosophy and spirituality even as he reveals it. -</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Booklist</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Carlos Castaneda would've loved this book. -</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr Michael Gleeson Anthropologist</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p>