Earthway
An Ella Clah Novel
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4.2 • 28 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Ella Clah has found her place on the Navajo Reservation, in her tribe, her clan, and her family. She has seen the Diné at their worst—and at their best—as they balance the modern era with the traditional Navajo way of life.
The Navajo are building a nuclear power plant on the Reservation. Though the tribe voted for the plant, there are those who believe that nuclear power is inherently dangerous—and particularly so for the Navajo, due to past uranium mining operations that contaminated land and water and sickened many Navajo workers and their families.
A group of activists is determined to do whatever is necessary to stop the plant—assault, sabotage, domestic terrorism. When a fellow Navajo Police officer is injured in an attack aimed at Ella's boyfriend, Ella vows to do whatever it takes to find the terrorists and bring them to justice.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the outset of the Thurlos' exciting 15th Ella Clah novel (after 2008's Coyote's Wife), Special Investigator Ella of the Navajo Tribal Police discovers a pipe bomb in the classroom of her almost-lover, Ford Tome, a Christian minister and former FBI agent who's now helping to track down a cell of antinuke fanatics before they can sabotage the nuclear power plant that's just been built on the Shiprock, N.Mex., reservation. The bombing case is complicated by a radical professor sending coded e-mails, a violently abusive husband who blames Ford for the breakup of his marriage and a camp of well-armed survivalists. Meanwhile, a clever sniper is stalking Ford and Ella, who's torn between embracing Ford and his God or holding onto traditional beliefs. The authors smoothly blend personal and professional concerns, as the Navajo police sort through a tangle of lies and loyalties while respecting the values of traditionalists and adapting to modern intrusions.
