Description: "With repartee worthy of Oscar Wilde, and magical invention reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Swain Wolfe's The Parrot Trainer is a delightful, insightful comedy of archaeological manners. Wolfe's luminous intelligence will make the reader believe that living spirits inhabit clay and that jocular ghosts can sometimes pull our strings. All of which is the long way of saying that The Parrot Trainer is entertainment of the highest order."-Rick DeMarinis " The Parrot Trainer is a fascinating, splendid novel. Wolfe really has a deep feeling for the Southwest and its people, and he knows how to tell an engrossing tale." -Douglas Preston, author of Cities of Gold "A darkly funny send-up , in which cultures and characters that should not even be in the same country with one another are forced to interact. The result is thoughtful, hilarious, frightening, and at times, philosophical."- The Arizona Republic "Set in the outsider fringe culture of the Southwest, Swain Wolfe's engaging novel The Parrot Trainer transforms accurate archaeology into a wry fantasy interweaving the present and the ancient past." -Steven LeBlanc, archaeologist and author of The Mimbres People and Constant Battles

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