Skywater eBook Melinda Worth Popham
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“Brand X and his fellow coyotes . . . are meticulously observed in the desert environment that Ms. Popham seems to know like her backyard. And so are the people of this fable—old Hallie and Albert . . . and the several varmint-hunters, callous or alcoholic or both. There is a parable of how we might relate to the creatures that share the world with us; and a parable of dreams versus realty; and a parable of home, of known territory with its comparative safety; and a parable of making the best of a world short of everything. The people and the creatures of Ms. Popham’s fable are right, they belong, and they mean.” —Wallace Stegner
“This spare and affecting novel has the precision and the stinging sweetness of a fable. A wonderful book.” —Thomas McGuane
“Refreshing . . . Life-affirming . . . The first book I’ve read in a long time that left me with teary eyes at the end.”—The San Diego Tribune
“Captivating . . . The animals’ arduous westward journey down the Colorado River to the Gulf suggests a coyote world view that is subtly sustained by their mysterious ways.” —Publishers Weekly
“With dramatic urgency and imaginative tenderness, Melinda Popham has given the world a painful, poetic, and delightfully unpredictable story that pulsates with hope and healing meaning.” —Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus
“Rich with poetic resonance.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Evoking a rich sense of place and animal behavior, [Popham] lets us see through very different eyes.” —The Seattle Times
“A daring and visionary tale. [Popham] dares to tell us what a coyote thinks and sees and feels and dreams. . . . A hero of the classic kind—a furry, howling, water-seeking version of the Hero with a Thousand Faces.” —James D. Houston
“Masterful . . . Astonishing . . . Remarkable . . . Put down the latest technothriller and bask awhile in the descriptive prose of Skywater.” —L.A. Life
“This spare and affecting novel has the precision and the stinging sweetness of a fable. A wonderful book.” —Thomas McGuane
“Refreshing . . . Life-affirming . . . The first book I’ve read in a long time that left me with teary eyes at the end.”—The San Diego Tribune
“Captivating . . . The animals’ arduous westward journey down the Colorado River to the Gulf suggests a coyote world view that is subtly sustained by their mysterious ways.” —Publishers Weekly
“With dramatic urgency and imaginative tenderness, Melinda Popham has given the world a painful, poetic, and delightfully unpredictable story that pulsates with hope and healing meaning.” —Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus
“Rich with poetic resonance.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Evoking a rich sense of place and animal behavior, [Popham] lets us see through very different eyes.” —The Seattle Times
“A daring and visionary tale. [Popham] dares to tell us what a coyote thinks and sees and feels and dreams. . . . A hero of the classic kind—a furry, howling, water-seeking version of the Hero with a Thousand Faces.” —James D. Houston
“Masterful . . . Astonishing . . . Remarkable . . . Put down the latest technothriller and bask awhile in the descriptive prose of Skywater.” —L.A. Life
Skywater eBook Melinda Worth Popham
This is a book that a member of my reading group picked up at the library by mistake. It turned out to be one of the best "mistake books" around.After Albert and Hallie Ryder lose their only son in WWII they set west and buy a plot of land in the far reaches of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He lives in a shack and she lives in the trailer and they watch the sunsets in the covered lean-to in between naming the creatures they observe sharing their patch of heaven.
For a while Albert had worked for the government killing coyotes but soon it became apparent that the almost 2 million killed was serving no purpose and actually doing more harm than good. He then became a kind of a rock hound while his wife kept bees and sold the honey to help make ends meet.
It soon came to light that the tailings from a copper mine had poisoned the water source they shared with the local animals. The couple purposely fouled the water to discourage use by the local coyotes and other animals.
It is at this point that the story changes to the POV of a coyote they’d named Brand X. He sets out to find another drinking spot and the reader follows him on his quest. Yes, the author has anthropomorphized the desert creatures. Yes, you will probably cry. Yes, it’s a wonderful book that I plan on recommending to anyone who asks me for a good book suggestion.
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Skywater eBook Melinda Worth Popham Reviews
This books writing is ok, but it's horribly overdone with cliches of cruelity perpetuated on animals by one dimensional men. I didn't finish it. It made me ill. Corkscrewing wire hangers into blind pups in a den to yank them out, etc. Yeah I get the alleyway abortion metaphor. It's lame.
Skywater is a compassionate plea for ecological common sense. A beautifully constructed modern fable with a cast of unforgettable characters, both coyote and human, I was pulled in on page one and could not put it down. That was nearly 20 years ago, and I find it more meaningful every time I read it.
This is one great book. I would call it a realistic fantasy as the coyotes are probably doing more "human" like thinking than in real life. It was well worth my time reading it.
Popham's writing style is crisp, clean, and beautiful. Every word on the page is absolutely necessary - nothing is wasted. In one particularly exciting section, I found myself wanting to read faster - to skim through it - but I didn't dare! I would have missed too much. Even if you think you don't like coyotes, this book is well worth reading. It's not a "talking dog" story, but rather one in which the characters - both canine and human - come to life.
What a treasure this book is! Closely echoing experiences mentioned by others above, I found this book in the library in the 1990s, loved it, gradually forgot about it...and then was haunted by it recently and decided I must buy a copy.
(But what was its title exactly...? That became a problem. y'all, would it be possible to tweak your search engine logic so that the incorrect spelling "Sky Water" with a space would get a HIT, and so on for other such cases? I started with this website, couldn't find it, went out to the website of a competitor and found it listed there, even though I had remembered it incorrectly as "Sky Water". And only then, when I had been reminded of the correct spelling, "Skywater", was I able to bring it up on this website. And I decided to buy it here because I have always been impressed by the website interface -- generally -- this one search engine peccadillo aside.)
It is clear that lots of research went into the telling of this story. It is educational, gripping, exciting and moving. It is also timeless as the natural habitat of coyotes and other wild animals is slipping away. Readers get a peek into what animals may be thinking and the sadness that overcomes humans who care about the environment. .
This is our second reading of this novel,and now that we live in Arizona, we really appreciated the excellent description as well as the engaging characters, even or especially the coyotes!
This is a book that a member of my reading group picked up at the library by mistake. It turned out to be one of the best "mistake books" around.
After Albert and Hallie Ryder lose their only son in WWII they set west and buy a plot of land in the far reaches of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He lives in a shack and she lives in the trailer and they watch the sunsets in the covered lean-to in between naming the creatures they observe sharing their patch of heaven.
For a while Albert had worked for the government killing coyotes but soon it became apparent that the almost 2 million killed was serving no purpose and actually doing more harm than good. He then became a kind of a rock hound while his wife kept bees and sold the honey to help make ends meet.
It soon came to light that the tailings from a copper mine had poisoned the water source they shared with the local animals. The couple purposely fouled the water to discourage use by the local coyotes and other animals.
It is at this point that the story changes to the POV of a coyote they’d named Brand X. He sets out to find another drinking spot and the reader follows him on his quest. Yes, the author has anthropomorphized the desert creatures. Yes, you will probably cry. Yes, it’s a wonderful book that I plan on recommending to anyone who asks me for a good book suggestion.
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