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August
“Ray” Rey was adopted as an infant from a Pueblo reservation by
Anglo college professors and raised in their North Carolina culture.
When Ray’s adoptive mother dies, he learns, at the age of 44,
of his Pueblo ancestry and begins to explore his Indianness.
His walk between the two cultures as a Lost Bird has been painful
and lonely; and although he is a first-class Ford dealership mechanic
and an Army veteran, he lives confused and alone with his dogs on a
remote mountain farm. Eventually,
he summons the courage to go to New Mexico in search of his tribal
identity. Ray is not well
received, but Booker recognizes Ray’s struggle to find spiritual
peace, and supports his efforts. Booker becomes a
controversial presence on the reservation especially when Debbie and
Sue, the Las Vegas showgirls introduced in the novel LOST IN LAS VEGAS,
show up and claim his support for their lifestyle changes.
Booker is forced off the reservation and taken in by the two
beautiful women just as his estranged son and daughter make separate
visits. White Wing and all
of Booker’s traditional friends play roles in Ray’s re-entry to the
tribe, a process that is not without high emotional drama as Ray meets
his mother’s sister and his blood relatives for the first time.
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