In the Sun's House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation

After finishing an undergraduate degree in English, Caswell (creative writing and literature, Texas Tech U., Lubbock) began an unplanned career as an educator, teaching English in Japan for two and a half years. Following subsequent travel in Korea, China, Morocco, and Europe, he happened into a teaching job in northwest New Mexico, in the mid-1990s, at a Navajo middle school. A decade later, the memories of that transformative experience still strongly lodged in his mind, he began documenting his year at Borrego Pass School. The 12 chapters contained here reveal the many ways that Caswell's Navajo experience taught him greater understanding of himself, both as an educator and a person. No subject index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)