ISBN: 0-88739-271-7
270 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 11/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Navajo Afterglow
Melvin Eisenstadt
Set in New Mexico, Navajo Afterglow is a novel about the injustices done to Native Americans by the Federal government. Two Navaho uranium miners, Sam and Johnny, contract lung cancer from working in the mines. They hire a lawyer to find out about compensation, and in the process discover a network of government conspiracy, from Federal refusal to make the mines a safer place to work, to tests conducted on the miners to determine the effects of high levels of radiation on humans. Set in the period between 1950 and 1970, it is based partly on fact, and includes an investigation that breaks through the government's "classified information" barrier, a romance, a scalping, a trial, and a fair amount of Navajo lore.
Review: "In this debut as a novelist, Mel Eisenstadt displays a way with words and talent as a storyteller. In Navajo Afterglow he uses his skill and a deep knowledge of the subject to expose our government's ill treatment of Navajo uranium miners."
-Tony Hillerman
"Mel Eisenstadt's Navajo Afterglow is an impassioned, imaginative and humane tale that dramatizes an all-too-real dark time in America's recent past."
-Jake Page, author of The Stolen Gods
Bio: MELVIN EISENSTADT has been an engineering professor, municipal judge, lawyer, and aerospace engineer. He lives in New Mexico, and devotes himself full-time to writing. This is his first published work of fiction.
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