LEADER 04766nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910141116503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26738-1 010 $a9786613267382 010 $a0-87421-655-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000114153 035 $a(EBL)769750 035 $a(OCoLC)751695404 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11353379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493257 035 $a(PQKB)10823374 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442867 035 $a(OCoLC)763159142 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9423 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC769750 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL769750 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41176 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000114153 100 $a20070214d2007 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe arc and the sediment /$fChristine Allen-Yazzie 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLogan, Utah $cUtah State University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (196 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87421-654-0 327 $aIntro -- Table of Contents -- The Plan -- The Plan, Amended -- New Breasts = New Bras -- To Food -- Dear James -- You Got to Cut Its Throat -- Hello, Please Help Me -- How to Make the World a Better Place -- Just So You're All Right Now -- All That Matters -- The Arc and the Sediment -- A Sore Cursing -- Hello, Kitty -- Fruit Sauce Should Always Be Served on the Side -- The Curiously Multifaceted Nature of Victimization -- The Wavering Red Light -- An Unspeakable Shine -- Entering the Third Dimension -- Forward, Anywhere -- What Becomes of Virginia Dare -- In the Vat Lies the Fruit -- Second Place Is Pretty Good, Considering -- A Little Reluctance Goes a Long Way -- I Want Some Cookies -- Who's Your Butterfly? -- In Drills and Bursts -- Rubber Hatchets -- I'm Saying If -- I'm Saying When -- Do You Want to Save Changes? -- As a Matter of Spite -- Keeping It Out -- Words for Later -- And Also It Goes Back to That Whistle -- They'll Eat My Irises -- Or What -- The Image Lasts All the Way Across -- Afterword: Gretta's Alternative Twelve Steps to Sobriety -- Acknowledgments. 330 $aGretta Bitsilly, gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her--as a wife, a writer, a skeptic in "the other land of Zion," Utah. Gretta has set off to Fort Defiance, Arizona, where she hopes to convince her Navajo husband, who has escaped not from his family but from alcoholism, to come home.Over a sputtering two-steps-forward, one-step-back desert journey, Gretta is diverted by chance, seizures, an inconstant memory, and the disjointed character of her irresolute quest.She is fueled by a volatile mix of rage and curiosity and is rendered careless by ambivalence toward her marriage--she knows a welcome mat will not be waiting for her, "that white girl" who can't seem to get anything right. On route Gretta finds herself lost in the landscape, in strange company, or in her own convolution of language and inner space. With a dictionary and a laptop she attempts to write herself into a better existence--a hopeful existence--and to connect points of intellectual, physical, even spiritual reference.This tale, though dark and difficult, is infused with tart, twisted humor. Confused, disheveled, self-deprecating, and self-destructive, Gretta is also sharp and funny. Here, first-time novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie breaks apart her own narrative arc but with gritty reality seals it near-shut again, if in rearrangement, drawing us into Gretta's wrestling match with herself, her husband, her addiction, and the road. 606 $aWomen alcoholics$vFiction 606 $aWomen authors$vFiction 606 $aInterracial marriage$vFiction 606 $aSeparated people$vFiction 606 $aNavajo Indians$vFiction 606 $aVoyages and travels$vFiction 606 $aDeserts$vFiction 608 $aPsychological fiction. 615 0$aWomen alcoholics 615 0$aWomen authors 615 0$aInterracial marriage 615 0$aSeparated people 615 0$aNavajo Indians 615 0$aVoyages and travels 615 0$aDeserts 676 $a813/.54 700 $aAllen-Yazzie$b Christine Diane$0998364 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141116503321 996 $aThe arc and the sediment$94199438 997 $aUNINA