Picnic in the ruins : a novel / Todd Robert Petersen.
"Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a “collector” of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined. What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?"-- Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781640093225 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 328 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Subject: | Women anthropologists > Fiction. National monuments > Utah > Fiction. Utah > Fiction. |
Genre: | Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Black humor. |
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