She picked up a law degree at the University of New Mexico and ended up marrying a Navajo man. As an adult, she reunited with her indigenous birth mother in New Mexico and began to immerse herself in the culture. Born of Ohkay Owingeh (Pueblo) and African-American heritage, Roanhorse was adopted by an Anglo family and grew up in Texas. She also has a more personal inspiration. (An outsider with a dark past, Maggie might remind you a little of Jessica Jones.) Roanhorse says she was inspired both by the urban fantasy of writers such as Ilona Andrews as well as the concept of “indigenous futurism,” coined 15 years ago by Portland State University professor Grace Dillon. “Trail of Lightning,” which comes out June 26 on Saga Press (a Simon & Schuster imprint), launches a series called “The Sixth World,” which follows Diné monster hunter Maggie Hoskie as she unravels a supernatural mystery. On the minus side, among the primordial legends brought to life are flesh-eating monsters out of Navajo nightmares. And in “Trail of Lightning,” the debut novel by the Nebula Award-winning sci-fi writer Rebecca Roanhorse, the end of the world as we know it comes with a silver lining for people of the Navajo reservation.Īncient magic is alive again, allowing the people to establish a reborn nation called Dinétah, from the Navajos’ own name for themselves, the Diné. Even in the apocalypse, there are winners and losers.
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