Winds of Change

By Dory Peters

Author: ?+ Dory Peters Description:

Winds of Change is a moving and memorable First. In this engaging, insightful, and culture-bridging novel, Dory Peters becomes the first Navajo, Latter-day Saint, Returned Missionary (Switzerland Z√ rich Mission) to tell, in first-rate fiction, how it was for Victor to grow up in two diverse but spiritually rich worlds--the Navajo and the LDS; how it was to be suddenly torn from a cherished, familiar, organic, inward, image-centered, and deeply traditional way of viewing the world and thrust into a vastly different, mechanistic, world-centered society, every bit as deep and traditional; how he becomes and remains part of both Navajo clan and Mormon family; how he struggles to identify and cultivate the best of each; yet how he becomes and remains an Other in both cultures.

Product Details:

Format: Paperback Print: Black & White Size: 6x9 Page Count: 143 ISBN: 9781555175238 Imprint: Bonneville Books Office Use: 1L944

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555175236
• ISBN13: 9781555175238
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Bonneville
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 14 years and up

Customer Reviews

Touching Story of Navajo Life

A brief but touching look at life growing up on the Navajo reservation and coming of age while trying to identify with two cultures. This book will resonate with anyone interested in Navajo life, or who loves the Navajo lands in the Chuska Mountain area. The love story will sound familiar to anyone who has found themselves caught between cultures, trying to make the best of both worlds. A nice first effort by the author.