As Told in Tucson
Books about Tucsonans & the Old Publo continued
Selected by Pima County Public Library
FICTION
Laila Halaby
ONCE IN A PROMISED LAND
The lives of a Jordanian couple living in Tucson begin to unravel in the post-9/11 world.
J. M. Hayes
GREY PILGRIM
In 1940, when a Papago Indian chief refuses to register the young men of his tribe for the draft, U.S. Marshall J.D. Fitzpatrick is sent to Tucson to bring the renegades to heel.
Bruce Itule
THE GOLD OF SAN XAVIER
A journalist arrives at the 200-year-old San Xavier Mission Church to write an article on art conservation but instead is embroiled in the investigation of a murdered priest and purloined treasured.
J. A. Jance
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
Native American mysticism punctuates this thriller about a sociopath who, after his release from prison, goes on a murder spree in the course of tracking down the woman who helped put him behind bars.
Kirby Jonas
THE DANSING STAR
A Tucson deputy sheriff, seeking to avenge the death of his adoptive family, is torn between the white world into which he was born and the world of the Chiricahua Apaches who raised him from boyhood.
Barbara Kingsolver
THE BEAN TREES
Fleeing Kentucky and poverty, a young woman and an abandoned Cherokee baby get as far as Tucson where they start a new life together in the desert Southwest.
