HAIL CHANTER IBD

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Author ofáEvil Chasing Way,áHand Trembler and SungazerHail Chanter,áBook Four, in theáStar Songáseries, features one man winding and wending his way through Southwestern real-time and dream-time. This novel serves as the final healing rapture of the previous three books:áEvil Chasing Way,áHand Trembler,áandáSungazer.In the earlier novels, the author/storyteller used the ancient art of singing to a star, hand trembling, and praying. The result, from the traditions of the Navajo Old Ways, turns a burning light into a healing one. This process took place on an operating table and in a radiation chamber. Hausman states:'I followed the sacred speech that a star makes. It lived within me and healed both the inside and outsideáof me.'The emergence ceremony ináHail Chanteráintertwines a mixture of ancient religion with modern medicine. The novel portrays Winter Thunder blowing apart a human form, making it all come together. The healer said:'It all comes together like a bunch of broken parts waiting to beáannealed all over again.'This captivating story maintains Jack Andrews as the hero from the first three novels, while also exploring the character of Jay DeGroat, a Navajo friend of GeraldâÇÖs for fifty years.'...Hausman honors Native American philosophy and spirituality even as he reveals it.'á-Booklist'Carlos Castaneda wouldâÇÖve loved this book.'á-Dr Michael Gleeson, Anthropologistá