Trail of Lighting

The novel is set in Dinétah, populated by the Diné or Navajo people. It is isolated from the rest of the world by a 50 foot wall, constructed to protect the population after the Energy Wars and the Big Water. Maggie Hoskie, the novel’s first person narrator, begins by describing her trip to Lukachukai to hunt a monster that had kidnapped a young girl. She kills the monster but also kills the girl, believing her to be infected after the monster’s attack. Maggie has been hunting monsters since her clan powers were awakened when witches slaughtered her grandmother. Back