At age 14, A.A. Carr, a Full-blood American Indian - Diné and Laguna Pueblo - began writing and making super 8mm clay-animated films about Navajo and Hopi lifestyles. Thereafter, he began a career of documentary filmmaking centering on Native American life and traditions. One of these entitled A LAGUNA WOMAN was nominated for an Academy Award in the student category. In 1994, he published his first novel - EYE KILLERS - with the University of Oklahoma Press in their American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series.

He has since been working on a trilogy of novels exploring the impact of the lingering trauma of colonization and genocide upon our current Native generation.

This excerpt is from the first book (currently untitled) of the trilogy.