The Delight Makers

A voice calls “Grandfather” from the thicket; another answers from the stream, calling his brother to see the great fish he has caught. A young hunter then leaps soundlessly onto a boulder above the water.

Long before Europeans arrive in New Mexico, the Queres make their home in Tyuonyi, a secluded valley of clear streams, towering cliffs, and cave dwellings hollowed from soft stone. Here, young Okoya and his little brother Shyuote share a quiet afternoon by the water—but their lives belong to a community shaped by old traditions and the strange, mischievous Koshare. As the brothers grow into the expectations of their people, what secrets lie beneath the calm surface of the valley?

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