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At Nodder Butte

by John Mogan

129 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #08-0114; ISBN 1-4251-6975-9; US$13.75, C$13.75, EUR9.39, £7.10

Robin, a graduate of geography, seeks work with the National Weather Service and is assigned to a remote desert post. During her three months there with a Navajo climatologist, she grows up.

About the Book

At Nodder Butte, Robin, a recent graduate of geography, begins work for the National Weather Service with a Native American climatologist. As well as the science of her work, she learns to observe in ways she hadn’t imagined, and experiences the strangeness and mystery of desert life. Her co-worker is a Navajo seer who refuses to accept his gift. The novel explores the consequences of this refusal, and its effect on Robin.

About the Author

John Mogan was born in Toronto and raised at Paris in western Ontario. After graduating from high school there, he studied English Language and Literature at the University of Toronto, where he took his BA (1951), and his MA (1957). He taught English at Etobicoke Collegiate in Toronto, and entered Medicine in 1957. He went into Family Practice from 1963 until 1969, when he was granted a Harvard Fellowship in Psychiatry. He practises medicine and psychiatry in Massachusetts, Maine, and Arizona.