He would persuade Hosteen Nakai that Mary, too, should undergo the blessing even though she was not born Dinee. The arrangements would take weeks—picking the site, spreading the word, getting the proper singer, arranging the food. But when it was over, he would go again with beauty all around him.
BOOKS BY TONY HILLERMAN
FICTION
The Shape Shifter • Skeleton Man
The Sinister Pig • Hunting Badger
The First Eagle • The Fallen Man
Finding Moon • Sacred Clowns
Coyote Waits • Talking God
A Thief of Time • Skinwalkers
The Ghostway • The Dark Wind
People of Darkness • Listening Woman
Dance Hall of the Dead • The Fly on the Wall
The Blessing Way • The Mysterious West
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (for children)
The Wailing Wind
NONFICTION
Hillerman Country
The Great Taos Bank Robbery
Rio Grande
New Mexico
The Spell of New Mexico
Indian Country
Seldom Disappointed
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
PEOPLE OF DARKNESS. Copyright © 1980 by Anthony G. Hillerman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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