ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BUILDING SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ON THE NAVAJO NATION
House Made of Ground
Jim Kristofic has written about much of Navajo country. When his daughter passes away, his heart goes into the earth. He decides to create a home – what the Navajo call a hogan – to honor her. In Taos, New Mexico, where he spent a decade learning from many sustainable builders, he takes readers through a daily experience of how to build an affordable, sustainable, efficient shelter mostly using natural materials and with no power tools. With hand-drawn illustrations and careful insights into natural building, House Made of Ground is a descent through grief and a testament of how to live with yourself.
Praise for Jim Kristofic’s work:
“Kristofic is a terrific, compelling writer who has turned the topic of sustainable housing into a transcendent cause. His knowledge of the land and the culture and the history of the American Southwest is nothing short short of thrilling and, as a reader, I would follow him anywhere he wants to go. We need what he has to say. And it’s an enormous pleasure to hear it.” ~ Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author of WAR, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, and Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging.
“Kristofic takes us into territory inhabited by Edward Abbey, Chuck Bowden, Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, and other literary stalwarts who have tasted the rarified air that invigorates true adventurers in pursuit of balance and integrity. This is a compelling work that keeps the home fires of resistance burning heartily.”
~ Jack Loeffler, author of Headed into the Wind: A Memoir.
Coyote Stranger
Coyote Stranger is a collection of eight short stories and a novella that draws on traditional Navajo tales to reveal a mythic force that comes to a small town on the Navajo Reservation that you won’t find on any tourist map. The people who live there keep their secrets, their dreams, their fears, to themselves. But when a stranger with gold and turquoise eyes hitchhikes into town, the people of Wide Reeds learn that their secrets are no longer safe. The Coyote – Mą’ii – the trickster, thief, warrior, wizard, coward, clown, and savior has come to call. And over the course of a year, in these interweaving narratives, life becomes strangely wonderful and terrifying as the Coyote Stranger pursues his plan.
“With Coyote Stranger, Jim Kristofic spins a powerful series of tales filled with magic and mystery. Highly recommended!” – Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of V-Wars, Dust & Decay, and the Joe Ledger series.
“Jim Kristofic writes tales of Native American mythology set in the modern world, a world where ancient gods, monsters, and magic still move and work among us. This no mere “urban fantasy” – the real world, the weight of emotional and economic realities, the grit and sweat of life and violence is counterposed against the dark fantastic. Honest, human characters find themselves caught up in strange, yet strangely familiar, events.” – Shawn Garrett, Editor, Pseudopod.org
The Sundown Killers
The Sundown Killers is an irreverent, supernatural thriller about a group of fugitives hunting another group of fugitives across the Southwest. It starts in a bathroom of a fast food chain on the Navajo Nation in Arizona and runs to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, crossing the sagebrush highways and canyon backroads in between. LeCaine Keeyahani, a Navajo teenager, joins Dondo Kee, a mysterious elder, to pursue a taboo evil that his compassion has unleashed on the world and threatens to uproot the foundations of modern life. A tale of gods and monsters, strange humor and off-beat philosophy,
HOUSE MADE OF GROUND 