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With the national forest as a backdrop, one of its important creatures, the Arizona black rattlesnake, narrates many short stories about the surprising and creative interaction between wild animals who call this place home and humans who are only visitors.

What an epoch! People gaining positions of power, casting aspersions, throwing insults, spewing lies. Others retrenching into safe havens of righteousness. Insulting the other guy if they win. Hurling diatribes if they don’t. So much “anti.”

FINDING ZACHARIAH allows you to capture the spirit of what is possible in a community garden. While this remarkable story is fiction, it is based on true events. Imagine a veteran with PTSD, who has fallen into homelessness and thinks alcohol is his only friend - only to find a true friend in a feral cat, Sebastian. Then, imagine a family suffering from losing their dad to violence.

A suspenseful storyline in A Dry Hate: Power Versus the People brings current events to life as author Nancy Marshall weaves fact into fiction, providing realistic, sometimes sympathetic characters and motives. In addition, she provides an excellent backdrop of First Amendment issues and a display of power and propaganda in action—an easy and worthwhile story for those who want to understand Arizona immigration politics.