Looking for your latest literary adventure? Pick up one of these reads by a Southern Arizona author.
Special to the Arizona Daily Star “Aztec Eagle” by Catherine Wells. Jumpmaster Press. 229 pages. $14.99 paperback.
In this “part chronicle, part memoir and part reflection on the nature of Christian mission in the light of Vatican II,” Tucson’s Santa Cruz Parish Priest in Residence Fr. David Costello writes of his experience as a missionary in Africa. Irish-born Discalced Carmelite Costello, assigned to California, volunteered for a mission in Kenya in 1995. Back to California after five years, Fr.
Rickel, whose previous work includes two book-length collections of poetry, a memoir-in-essays, and three chapbooks, taught in the University of Arizona’s Creative Writing Program for 20 years.“CaddyWampus: Murder at Woebegone Dunes Resort ” by Erik and Judy Martin. Wheatmark. 406 pages. $19.95; Kindle, $9.99.
Confused yet? As the novel’s title suggests, the authors have intentionally created a scenario in which everything is “in disarray and disorder… whacky, off-kilter an out of balance,” and they do it with good humor, winking slyly at the genre of spy thrillers.
Growing up in a hardscrabble Montana mining town that offered few prospects for a creative young man, author Timothy Harrington opted to spend his adult life moving away from the symbolic darkness of the mines and towards the light. It was hard work, he says, learning to ditch his emotional baggage — but his refusal to let his past shape his future allowed him to embrace his artistic passion and realize his potential.
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