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I just finnished reading this book Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham, and I was surprised by how good of a story it really was, I very much enjoyed the book, more so then I had first thought I would. I thought the author did a very unique and interesting job with the story and brought a certian realisim and belivablity to it that many such stories seem to lack.
Skywater was the story about a Coyote known as Brand X, and he lived in the desert in Texas, and originally Brand X with 6 other coyotes were gathered around this area becasue there was this couple of old people that lived there out in the middle of nowhere, and the animals used thier water tank for a drinking hole, but the water came from a ground well and it was discovered that the water was becoming contiminated by the mines in the area so the couple drove the animals off from drinking from it and then let it dry up.
So Brand X goes on this quest that is in part a spiritual jouney was well as a quest for survial. He need a knew place to drink from and decides to find what the coyotes call Skywater. Becasue the sky is blue like water is, in the mind of the coyotes the sky is a vast celeistial plain of endless water in which the spirits rise up to drink from. And so Brand X is determined to find the place where Skywater meets the land and he as a living being can drink from it.
One of the things I really liked the book, is unlike other such animal stories, it is not made to look cartoonish, that is the animals do not all talk to each other the way people talk to each other and the way they see the world is really different, the author takes the reader into the mind of the coyote, of course it is only thier preception of it, but it is done with the feel or realisim. The coyotes are given a sort of spiriality as well as a primitive and yet intelligent view of the world, that seems very much akin in someways to Native American spirituality.
I really rather ejoyed this story though there were parts that were quite sad and maddening.
11:17 AM - 12/30/2007 -
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