The Woman At Otowi Crossing

<div> <p>Based on the real life of Edith Warner who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing just below Los Alamos <i>The Woman at Otowi Crossing</i> is the story of Helen Chalmer a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development.</p> <p>In keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive Ohio University Press/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue <i>The Woman at Otowi Crossing</i> by best-selling author Frank Waters. This new edition features an introduction by Professor Thomas J. Lyon and a foreword by the author's widow Barbara Waters.</p> <p>The story is quintessential Waters: a parable for the potentially destructive materialism of the mid-twentieth century. The antidote is Helen Chalmer's ability to understand a deeper truth of her being; beyond the Western notion of selfhood beyond the sense of a personality distinct from the rest she experiences a new and wider awareness.</p> <p>The basis for an opera of the same name <i>The Woman at Otowi Crossing</i> is the powerful story of the crossing of cultures and lives: a fable for our times.</p> </div>