This simple tale of betrayal and the more complex pathway towards healing begins on Aymara tribal lands in the Altiplano region of northern Chile, where it flows down from the untamed and time-frozen Andes to an industrialized coastline, following the fallout of World War Two.
Book One of this Twelve Pelican trilogy is openly expressed through the refreshingly curious eyes of a mixed-cast boy called Balam, as he comes to grips with life-crippling diseases born from superclass bigotry and change-phobic religious extremism.
To help better understand these social viruses as they are reinvented throughout history by divinely appointed skygod kings with their ongoing desire to remain in power, the boy is gifted a rare educational opportunity by a kindly human librarian and a much wilder feathered menagerie of mythical pelican messengers. Collectively, this colorful entourage provides his increasingly hungry mind with a time-bending banquet of ancient survival lessons.
Answers to many of the boy's life-teasing 'Big Everything' queries are foraged from culturally intertwined patterns dancing out of the not-so-distant past, further stimulating his curiosity-driven research in the present. Balam's high-flying knowledge feast is grounded by a motley crew of international storytellers in this old yet hauntingly relevant beachside yarn.
As the reader, you are openly invited to join the colorful cast of this historical fiction show and boldly reinvestigate humanity's dynamic and remarkably interwoven social rhythm as modern humans emerge from the last Ice Age, over twelve thousand years ago. Then, further explore how our naturally balanced dance became so rudely interrupted by a handful of self-serving authoritarian extremists, still peddling fear and division around our globe today
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