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Young Pal needs help with his dreaming. Palimony Blue Larue, a mixblood growing up in a small California town, suffers from a painful shyness and wants more than anything to be liked. That's why Mary Blue, his Nez Perce mother, has dreamed the weyekin, the spirit guide to help her bring into the world the one lasting love her son needs to overcome the diffidence that runs so deep in his blood. The magical (and not totally competent) weyekin pops in and out of Pal's life at the most unexpected times, but seems to have difficulty setting him on the right path. Killing Time with Strangers is unlike any novel most readers have encountered before-or perhaps it will be agonizingly familiar, with its glimpses of a young man finding his precarious way in life. But when the power of dreaming is unleashed, time becomes negotiable and life's joys and sorrows go up for grabs.
About the author
W. S. Penn is also the author of a previous novel,
The Absence of Angels, a collection of essays,
All My Sins Are Relatives, and most recently has edited
The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art. A mixblood Nez Perce, he is Professor of English and resident writer at Michigan State University and lives in East Lansing.
