New York: Macmillan, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, "one of those life and death, love and infinity sagas set in the mountains and on the beaches of the Pacific . . . With horses." This story of a 15 year old girl who goes west becomes a "dark joke of history, a flipped-out fairy tale, and the truth about the invention of California." Cover praise from Tom Robbins, Edward Abbey and others. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-02583150X.