Anasazi fiction in the Southwest: A Mystery in a New Dimension

One hour Zoom event with San Francisco East Bay author Margaret C. Murray reading from her two Native American novels of magic realism, Sundagger.net and Spiral with original music, videos and slides focusing on:

• Life and death in the mysterious ancient Chaco culture of the Southwest
• Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments: An outdoor laboratory of our history on the earth
• Discussion and Q&A.

“This place is a part of the history of all the Native peoples in this region. It’s like a book for us. . . .But it’s also part of the history of the peoples of the United States and the world.”— Jim Enote, Pueblo of Zuni

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante contain 4,000 years of Native American culture and more than 100,000 Native American archeological and cultural sites.

Beneath the desert are the richest deposit of dinosaur bones and fossils ever discovered, over 75 million years old. Twenty-five new species of dinosaurs have been unearthed already and archeologists have hardly scratched the surface.

The preservation of this sacred land is advocated by 30 tribes including the Navajo, Hopi, Ute, Zuni, Paiute, and Apache.

“In the Four Corners area bound by Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, you can sense the awe, the prayers and promise in all that speaks to Spirit. The ruins, migration trails, pot chards, pictographs, petroglyphs and the connection between heaven and earth in archeo-astronomy inspired me to write Sundagger.net and its prequel, Spiral.”–Margaret C. Murray

“In her Sundagger.net, Margaret Murray gives us a mystery novel in a new dimension moving us from Post 9/11 Silicon Valley to the Ancient Anasazi of the Southwest.”
–Tony Hillerman