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Author’s Notes:

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Eight Northern Pueblos Tribal College, the College of the Rio Grande, and the various businesses in Santa Fe are fictitious.

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Sparky’s in Hatch, NM is real. The skeletons change their outfits occasionally. I described what they were wearing a few years back, since this book takes place in 2011.

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Gaia Greene’s practice of Tuvan shamanism is based on material from “An American in Tuva: The Education of a Reluctant Shaman” by Robert Amacker, Shaman’s Drum number 61, 2002 pp. 46-58

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The book Jamie is reading in the epilogue is Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar, Rodale Books, 2006.