Swim home to the vanished

Summary: A haunting debut novel in the indigenous Diné tradition, Swim Home to the Vanished follows a grief-stricken young man who, after his brother's sudden death, seeks refuge--and oblivion--in a mysterious fishing village of brujas.

Record details

ISBN: 0063241099
ISBN: 9780063241091
ISBN: 0063241080
ISBN: 9780063241084
Physical Description: 230 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I -- Fish smoke -- Migrations patterns of desert fish -- The goatherd -- The bus -- Hwéeldi -- The church of bees -- The funeral -- The village -- Burial -- The archivist -- Eddie Caro's chinchorro -- The river -- Paola -- A la parrilla -- The house by the woods -- Morning -- Catch of the day -- Soufflé of sea -- Part II -- The lure - Communing with worms -- Jardín -- El dedo perdido -- The blind albnio miner -- Cariña marta -- Subaqueous foragers -- Part III -- The storm -- Gravedigger -- Wasp -- Hashtł'ish -- What fish remain.