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Coyote
Ridge

A Novel by
Barb Mihaljevich

Summary

Once in a while, there comes a story that sings. Coyote Ridge is that story.

Set beneath the foothills of Fort Collins, Colorado, this beautifully written novel tells first of a tiny fragment of the shortgrass prairie that historically blanketed much of the American West. A place where water is scarce, soil alkaline, and food hard to come by, the Cathy Fromme Prairie is an old presence unperturbed by the violent collisions of her inhabitants.  Life on the prairie is hard. Period.

Then come the people. Though the affluent suburban homes that border
the prairie lack no amenities, those who live here collide, too. Pat is a widow who must daily confront her daughter’s selfishness. Her neighbors, the Blackburns, apprehensively await the arrival of their first child. Down the street, the town’s preeminent cardiac surgeon regards his son’s desire to act with arrogant disdain. When the doctor is accused of malpractice and the Blackburns’ new baby mysteriously disappears, the fragile equilibrium of the entire community implodes.

A novel of brilliant parallels, Coyote Ridge explores the nature of love, loss, and balance between two worlds. In language as lyrical as notes from a flute, Mihaljevich draws the world of the prairie and world of people closer and closer until the difference between them blurs, then dissipates. What remains are echoes that sound softly, one upon the other, until there is no doubt: what we have here is a song, indeed.
 

Author

A master naturalist for her community’s natural resources program, Barb Mihaljevich visits the prairie near her home to be reminded. “On the prairie, it’s so easy to see that everything—weather, soil, topography, plants, animals—affects everything else. And instead of past, present, and future there’s a timelessness that speaks of even greater connections, from life that has gone before to life that has come after. I love that. In the face of loss, it imparts a sense of oneness I find comforting.”

Reviews

Set in Colorado, Coyote Ridge by Barb Mihaljevich is a deftly written novel about families hard-pressed to survive… on the harsh prairie. Family crises, betrayal, mistrust, and a surgeon father’s disdain for his would-be actor son are among the elements weaving a tangled web of human destiny in this involving drama. Coyote Ridge documents Barb Mihaljevich as a gifted and original storyteller with a flair for narrative.

Midwest Book Review, August 10, 2003

…an engaging, thoughtful read from a newcomer to the Colorado fiction arena.

Denver Rocky Mountain News, January 23, 2003

Coyote Ridge is…a creative, novelistic interpretation of the edgy interface between Western land and Western civilization.

Southwest BookViews (Spring 2004)

Barb Mihaljevich has written a completely unique and beautiful novel…I highly recommend you tie your heart around this novel.

Natalie Hannah, Roundtable Reviews

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Coyote Ridge Barb Mihaljevich Bright Eagle Publishing  Secure Online Book Price: $23.00 Shipping & Handling Rates Shipping and Handling Rates ------------------- Standard - $4.50 + $1.00/item Ground - $6.00 + $1.00/item 2nd Day - $14.00 + $5.00/item 1st Day - $35.00 + $10.00/item INTL. FC - $12.00 per item INTL. PM - $26.00 per item *CO and OH residents add sales tax 224 pages, casebound ISBN: 0972652809