Review: The Survivor
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
This was an emotionally difficult book to read -- a harsh if fictionalized indictment of the Spanish who treated the Pueblo peoples so abominably, and then the American scientists who saw their holy bones as treasure to be dug up and stored in museum basements in their dusty thousands. But the characters of Hollow Woman and her grandfather make the book sparkle, even through long discourses on the history of the Pecos. This is ultimately a story of love and devotion, and the reader who sticks with it will be rewarded.