Strange enchantment: A conversation with native novelist Evelina Zuni Lucero.

From: Santa Fe Reporter | Date: August 21, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Strange Enchantment: A conversation with native novelist Evelina Zuni Lucero.

I met Evelina Lucero a year ago in the shiny new library of the Institute of American Indian Arts' just-finished campus. A freshly hired adjunct instructor, I was nervous and indisguisably, clumsily Anglo. Our colleague Arthur Sze introduced Evelina to me as "Isleta and San Juan Pueblo," whereupon I nodded and tried to look knowledgeable about tribal affiliations.

Delicately featured, beautiful in dangling earrings, Evelina was self-possessed, with a slight drawl and a gentle but pointed sense of humor; she was ...

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