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New novel offers encyclopedic romp through time, space and reality

by Todd M. Pree

In the epic adventure Coyote Redux, Yulalona Lopez and Violet Reason satirize ways humans have lost touch with important values of the past.

Coyote Redux by Yulalona Lopez and Violet Reason is a mythopoetic adventure that explores modern cultural mores, including lost nuclear warheads and Wall Street greed, which are all filtered through the traditional character of the rapscallion Coyote.

In Coyote Redux, Lopez and Reason question what it means to be modern by reintroducing the character of Coyote, known for sticking his nose into everything. Here, Coyote explores the radical discontinuity between the past and the present, between the beauties of nature and the challenges of the machine age. As Coyote remembers his many different lifetimes, he offers astute commentary on everything from art, science, literature and business.

The authors use Coyote as a teacher for improper behavior and as a symbol of what happens when a culture does not grow, change and mature, shielding itself from the basics of life, sex and death. The world surrounds people with invisible, powerful and conscious beings in natural forms, says Lopez, and she designed the stories in Coyote Redux to offer insight into those beings.

Coyote Redux is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

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About the Author

Yulalona Leelannee Lopez studied astronomy at Harvard University and is associated with the Tonoho O’odham in Arizona. She is a founding member of the Palouse Poets Collective and a contributor to Nieman Ryan Community Designs. Lopez is also the author of Tropomorphoses, Night Wolves and Coyote Remasked and lives in Grants Pass, Ore., where she follows coyotes on their errands in and out of town. Her avocation is saving places and cultures, working through The Nature Conservancy, Cultural Survival and other groups.

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