Cover for David Edward Walker’s novel, Tessa’s Dance, from his Medicine Valley Series

Medicine Valley Series (Book 1)

Volume I of two in David Edward Walker’s Medicine Valley Series. A strong-hearted Yakama girl and a mixed-blood psychologist ride a wild horse past methamphetamine and gang-violence to discover friendship, healing, and the importance of tradition. The fragile bond between Tessa Miyanashatawit, a fifteen-year-old Yakama American Indian girl and psychologist Dr. Ret Barlow may heal both of them with the help of Auntie Elisi and grandfather Arnold’s gift of Ámashitum, a wild horse. However, ‘Cowboy’ Jack Brie, her mother’s ex- boyfriend, and Tessa’s childhood abuser reenters Tessa’s world, threatening her family, especially baby half-sister, Ce Ce. Now Dr. Barlow’s trying to step in, unaware that Brie already sees him coming.

Price
$15.95

Publisher: Thoughtful Publishing
Release: November 21, 2012
326 Pages
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.73 inches | 1.06 pounds
Paperback
EAN/UPC – 9780615725833

BISAC Categories: Thrillers – General, Native American & Aboriginal

“Reading Tessa’s Dance blurs the line between dreamtime and what is known as realtime. Tessa makes the dream become real in each moment with each line of the book.”

Eduardo Duran, PhD, Author of Healing the Soul Wound, Buddha in Red Face, and Native American Postcolonial Psychology

“Remarkable and enthralling … deserves to be read by everyone in this country!“

Paula Joan Caplan, PhD, Author of When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans, and They Say You’re Crazy: How the world’s most powerful psychiatrists decide who’s normal

“Depicts much of the reality on all reservations and the life we have come to know and the things we battle with from day to day.“

Margaret Strong, Puyallup/Yakama