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Things start bad, and keep getting worse for Anaya and Naomi. After Naomi organizes a protest against a new biotech center that their university in California plans on building in a redwood grove near campus, she and her mother are summoned to the dean's office. Anaya, her mother, is a respected professor of religious studies and has an interest in shamanism, or, as the dean quickly rebrands it in their meeting, witchcraft. Convinced the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree, the dean fires Anaya and banishes Naomi, charging them both with obstructing the university's use of its property, immorality, and, yes, witchcraft.Looking for a place to regroup and sue the university, Anaya and Naomi seek asylum in Montana, expecting to find peace and quiet in a house they recently inherited from a long lost aunt. To their dismay, when they get to Montana they discover that their new home is a whorehouse. Needless to say, their new business is not entirely a help in their lawsuit against the university.Located directly across the street from the local church, it would also seem to be inopportunely located. However, Chocolate Lips, the woman who runs it, wouldn't have it any other way. She explains that the minister across the street gives them free advertising every Sunday. It's a self-sufficient economy, she insists: She provides the sin; the minister provides the salvation. Together, they circulate enough money to keep the tiny economy afloat. Naomi and Anaya soon confront a powerful rancher (nicknamed by his detractors Kingdom Come) who is a state senator and the head of a secretive religious group called the Priesthood. Rumor has it, he murdered his wife for adultery. With a daughter in rebellion, environmentalists fighting a coal mine he wants to start on his ranch, and the Priesthood's many secrets to protect, the last thing he needs is for the two women to talk to his daughter. Jezebels of the Earth is a novel about confronting the powers that have created the climate crisis. By telling the story about a small town in Montana, perched, as the locals describe it, at the end of the world, it explores possibilities for healing the earth.
