Crazy Weather by Charles L. McNichols 1944 Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket - Coming of Age Meets Cultural Diversity

Crazy Weather by Charles L. McNichols 1944 Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket - Coming of Age Meets Cultural Diversity

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages) size is approximately 9” x 6”

—In four days of glory-hunting with an Indian comrade, South Boy, who is white, realizes that he must choose between two cultures. From the Dust Jacket Flap…”During four tense days of maddening hear the boy travels the length of the Fort Mojave Reservation, encountering every phase of life among people who had once made themselves feared from the Rio Grande 10 the Pacific, who stood shoulder to shoulder and fought with clubs when the Apaches shot their arrows and an away. He hears the Dream Singers chant the story of creation. Religion, birth, death, sorcery, heroism, all phases of the life of a people who are stark realists, still the possessors of a unique native culture in spite of white contact, are seen through the boy's eyes. He encounters one of the relics of the frontier, a white man gone Indian. Then death, and the weird ceremony of cremation. He saves his friend and is saved by his friend in the storm that brings an end to the crazy weather and leaves him an Indian boy no longer, but a white man.

-From Good Reads Reviews… “McNichols's subtle and agile portrait of a young man coming of age on the cusp of white and Mojave cultures helps us understand what is universal, and what each culture has to offer. It's a poignant story of courage and confusion, loyalty and separation.”

“A thoroughly engaging book. The writer writes about Mojave culture in a way that seems authentic, and it is fascinating. It gave me the same feeling as reading the best science fiction: here is a world very different from your own, but entirely plausible and even preferable in some parts.”

“High marks from UK LeGuin, who read it twice: first in the mid-40s, when she was about 15, then read it again some 70 years later, and liked it even more.”

“Just as Ursula le Guin said, it is as dramatic as Shakespeare and as fiercely unromantic as the Iliad. A great contrast to almost all the other books I've read.”

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