In Naked into the Night, Winn Connover leaves his suburban home and family to begin a new life among the Native Americans of the Southwest. In the second book in Joynes' series, Lost in Los Vegas, Connover, now called "Anglo" by the people of the tribe, is tasked by tribal elders to go to Las Vegas and retrieve a prodigal son. Like himself before his spiritual awakening, White Wings is lost in a world of mediocrity and physical vice. Ultimately, it is a shared vision quest which reveals the path home to both Anglo and White Wing. Masterful and compelling fiction from one of the best Visionary Fiction writers of our day.

Lost in Las Vegas

Literature & Fiction

Joynes, Monty

Joynes, St. Leger

United States

Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc

Save the Good Seed is the third novel in the on-going saga of Anglo, a middle-aged white man whose internal enlightenment leads him to a new life on an Indian reservation.Today "Anglo Who Became Chief Old Woman's Son" lives among the Pueblo Indians, a long way from his life as Winston Conover, middle-aged Virginia businessman. His disillusionment with that life led him to discard it--along with every vestige of his identity--as described in the first book of this series, Naked Into the Night. In the second novel, Lost in Las Vegas, Anglo repays the tribe by using his knowledge of the white man's world to help reclaim a lost member of the tribe who had been seduced by the show business life.Now Anglo is still among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, finding the sacred in everyday life, not just in ceremonies and vision quests. But there are mutterings: Why is this white man living among them? Is he not a "pretend Indian?" Anglo came to the reservation for his own reasons--but he now finds himself a point of contention between those who want the tribe to become "modern" and those who want to return to past values, reclaiming the way of life some say is lost forever. And as Anglo becomes more immersed in the daily rhythms of tribal life, a young man half a continent away begins a long journey to find his home after half a lifetime spent among the whites. Ultimately, their paths cross . . .In Save the Good Seed, Monty Joynes creates a vivid portrait of the disappearing world of ritual and harmony. His gift for creating real characters lays bare the pain and waste of the human spirit when denied its birthright, and demonstrates the courage and spirit need to find the way home.

Save the Good Seed

The water-which comes naturally from the earth and sky, the priceless compound of elements that forms and supports life-is dying. Warned in a vision, the tribal elder of the pueblo sends his chosen one to discover the fate of the precious life source. That man is Anglo, formerly known as Winn Conover, a white man who shares the work and vision of the tribe. Anglo must discover the true spiritual nature of the water in order to save it from encroaching land developers.
The fourth book in Joynes' Booker series about a white man's continuing search for meaning amid the indigenous peoples of the American Southwest, Dead Water Rites is lucid and literary, an articulate and artful plea to cease our self-destructive exploitation of the environment and native peoples.

Dead Water Rites: A Novel (Booker Series)

Genre Fiction

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Lost in Las Vegas

Save the Good Seed

Dead Water Rites: A Novel (Booker Series)