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Picnic in the ruins : a novel / Todd Robert Petersen.

Summary:

"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.
Subject: Women anthropologists > Fiction.
National monuments > Utah > Fiction.
Utah > Fiction.
Genre: Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Black humor.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Terrace Public Library PET (Text) 35151001115088 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Grand Forks FIC PET (Text) 35142002720646 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Lac La Hache Branch PET (Text) 33923006354900 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

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