Jim Kristofic grew up on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona, USA, and has worked on and off the "Rez" for more than ten years as a river guide, park ranger, journalist, ranch hand, and oral historian. He's written for the Navajo Times, Arizona Highways, High Country News, and Native Peoples Magazine. His memoir, Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life, was a finalist for the 2012 Spur Award and was named a 2011 Southwest Book of the Year. Nolan Karras James is an artist, songwriter, powwow dancer, guitarist, and former rodeo cowboy from Pinon, Arizona, USA. His father is Many Goats Clan (T?'izi Lani) and his mother is Apache (Chishi).
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A thrillingly melodramatic tale kept close to its Navajo roots.--Kirkus Reviews James's vivid pencils combine elements of geometric Navajo symbolism and iconography with a superheroic comic-book sensibility brought to both the brothers and the terrifying creatures they battle.--Publishers Weekly This colorfully illustrated tale of two brothers searching for their true father and facing down a fearsome monster teaches how obstacles can be overcome through patience, cooperation, and bravery.--Cowboys & Indians