This comic novel is â[a] whimsical fable of contemporary culture shock. . . . Tautly written with a zest for the absurd and the unpredictableâ (The New York Times Book Review).
As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Aloneâuntil a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of loveâin the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaidâand a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam . . . and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.
âDownright laugh-out-loud, canât-put-the-book-down funny.â âThe Philadelphia Inquirer
âAt once irreverent, spiritual, and wonderfully fresh in approach.â âLibrary Journal
âEffectively mixing the mythic and the modern, Moore intersperses contemporary trickster tales with the comic saga of Samâs evolution.â âBooklist
âFunny and entertaining.â âPublishers Weekly