Gene Guerin: the Song of Jonah November 12, 2008

Gene Guerin, whose novel 'Cottonwood Saints' won the 2006 Premio Aztlan award, a national award for first-time Hispanic authors, and the 2007 Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association award for best adult fiction, will read from and sign 'The Song of Jonah.' In this modern retelling of the Book of Jonah, a charismatic but brash young priest accustomed to hobnobbing with the upper crust of New England society is exiled to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in the early 1960s. "The Song of Jonah is a story of hope, and redemption. And Guerin brings us there with a heady mix of magic realism, regional folklore and a good working knowledge of the political machinations of the Catholic church."