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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BOOKS ‘Trailblazers’ Inspires More Than It BEST SELLERS Informsin Profiling Western Women Here are the week’s Book Sense best sellers, based on independent bookstore sales. er we Trailblazers ‘Twenty Amazing Western Women ion 1. The Corrections. Jonathan Fran sen(fumer SegueGuecss 2. Isle of Dogs. Patricia Comwell By Karen Surina Mulford; Northland Publishing; $14.95 (Putnam) 3. LegBest Loved Poems of Jac- queline ae sna ia CactinnWarn BY MARTIN NAPARSTECK : ; Shoshoni who was captured andsold Se SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE trader and wouldhelp lead Lewis and Clark across the continent, should be There was a time when it was commonto say a book like Trailblazers: a Tee to zeaeLars ‘ited opportunities for &N. oy and AMERICA NAPARSTECK bp tenaat cr anid 6. Peace Like a River. LeifEnger (Atlantic Monthly) ae 7. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamestroes, Sijie Dai (Knopf), in Paradise. Robert B. 8. Death Parker @uman) her 9. Black HiHouseStephenKing pettBiatk ai : Re Seneen Mes Ockteg (Vis Ese ee)6. White Teeth. Zadie Smith (Vin- na Setiiemines 7ShapStreMariniia) ya mau teinAes Vreeiand (Penguin) bertpe t, int jue. Susan (seribner) 15. Nautical Chart. Arturo PerezReverte (Harcourt Bracce) Hardcover Nonfiction 1Sa bg Weapomp Mille, Stephen!beatrdiadvatim J— a (Simon & a vid McCullough 8. Fire. Sebastian Junger (Nortoh) 4. Warin a Time ofPeace. David Halberstam (Scribner) 5. HowI Play Golf. Tiger Woods sented is exten- wTdacstaht Pro the Gut. tributes. Nellie Take Cashman, who in the late 19th and (Gann ka, rescued 405. ‘about 4. hospitals and ran boarding houses The Four Agreements. Don wikten (Mulin for poor miners, Mulford deserihes 6. MeTalk Pretty One Day. David 11. Se Brothers. Joseph J. (Knopf) World.shnon Winchester (HarperCollins) sasar (Back Bay) 7. Jihad vs. McWorld: How Glo- geWorld.Benjamin Looroe tine) te 18. Living a Life That Matters. Harold S. Kushner (Knopf) 14. An leart: 15. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson (Putnam) Trade Paperback Fiction ' 1. The Red Tent. Anita Diamant (Picador) 2. The Blind Assassin. Margaret 8. From Beirut to Jerusalem. Thomas L. Friedman (Anchor) 9. Band of Brothers. StephenE. Ambrose (Touchstone) 10. The aeme God. Karen ‘Armstrong 11. A Heartbiiroakiag Work of Staggering Genius. Dave Eggers (Vintage) 12. It’s Not Aboutthe Bike. Lance Armstrong(Berkley) Atwood ( wr) 8. Girl With a Pearl Tracy Chevalier (Plume) 13. All Over Butthe Shoutin’. Rick Bragg (Vintage) 14. Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Kavalier & Clay. Michael Chabon (Random House) 15. Old Farmer’s Almanac 2002. Robert B. Thomas (Villard) Amazing Adventures of Diamond (Norton) her as “blazing trails through the The Utah Book Award nominees have been announced for 2001. Winners will named on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in the audito- | . rium ofthe Main Library, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City. On Nov. 10 at 4 p.m., Sam Weller’s Zion Books,245 S. Main St., will hostreception for the winners library staff, has beenjoined by the Smith Petit Foundation in sponsoringthe awards. Following are this year’s nominees: Non-fiction: Making a Difference, by Amy Irvine; The Heart of the Desert Wild, by Greer Chesher and Liz Hymans; River Flowing From the ee awards were established by the Utah Center for the Book to honor and celebrate Utah authors. This year, the Center for the Book, a project based in the Salt Lake City Public Library and run bycity Sunrise, by James M. Aton and Robert S. McPherson; and Wabi Sabi Style by James and Sandra Crowley. Fiction: The Ferry Woman by Gerald Grimett; Downwinders: An Atomic Tale by Curtis Grandmothers group that is becoming smaller - in the United States to be elected to a and smaller, the state senate. Among the candidates I rail the book’s title, metaphorical trailblazers (Sacagawea, | of course,se, wasa literal trail- ae athe 2ist are ere ee cent Atweiean a 7 4 Twenty AmaghngNestern Women ; by KAREN SURINA WULFORD : fessions : still closedto women. Bridget Biddy Mason may come was oneofhis six wives). Other womenprofiled in the book include writer Mary Austin (“Her invs * tense driven nature would occasionally produce a nervous breakdown”), painter Georgia O'Keeffe (“Her bestknown works ... are her detailed studies offlowers and desert, bolic studies symbolic paintings often said to relate to female sexuality, an opinion O'Keeffe strongly disagreed with”), actress Mary Pickford (in “Rebecca of Sunny- brook Farm . . . twenty-four-year-old as a surprise to Pickford played the lead, a plucky some Utah read- preteen whoblended in perfectly with ers. She is seldom mentioned in state history books. She the cast of eleven and twelve years olds”), and U.S. Supreme Court Justice sandra Day(O'Connor (“She spent Resswomany, “hardly the typical nineteenth. century woman.” Or this key state- is not mentioned jor childhood onthe family's Lazy B in Thomas Alexander's Utah,which, The Ranch, which sprawled across 198,000 Right Place, published in 1995, ment:“. , . she madeseveral fortunes throughout her lifetime, but gave mostof her moneyto charity.” We're nottold what“several” means, or how according to the cover was “The Offi- much money she made (not even an approximation), or how much she gave away. We have to accept Mul- ford’s judgments. Andthat’s fine. Trailblazers may not inform, but it does have the potential to inspire. Two Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute who as a writer and speaker became the principal spokesperson for her people, and Sacagawea, a and Diane Oberhansley; How WePlay the Game in Salt Lake and Other Stories, by M. Shayne Bell; and Falling Toward Heaven, by John Bennion. Poetry: That Green Light That Lingers, by Miriam B. Murphy; The World’s Last Night, by Margot Schilpp; The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension, by Katharine Coles. cial Centennial History” of the state. Masonwas born a slave in Mississip- pi, but when her owner converted to the Mormonfaith, she was taken to Utah. Her ownerthen took her to California, where slavery wasillegal, but still held her in bondage. Only when hetried to move herand her daughters to Texas and shesued, with the help of some freed blacks, did she win. her freedom. Martha Hughes Cannon will be better known to readers familiar with Utah history. She was thefirst woman presented in Manhattan Nov. 14, are: Fiction: The Corrections, by Jonathan The Last Report on the Miracles atLittle No Horse, by Louise Erdrich; Among the Missing, by Dan Chaon; Look at Me, by Jennifer Egan; and Highwire Moon, by Susan Straight. Nonfiction: Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, acres in Southeastern Arizona”). As anyone picking up this book would expect, none of the 20 women portrayed are less than admirable. All had significant personal accomplishments and some contributed significantly to the country. Any teen-age girl looking for a role modelwill find 20 good ones in Mulford’s book. As a matteroffact, so will any teen-age boy. Martin Naparsteck reviews booksfrom and about the West for The Salt Lake Tribune. America Naparsteck is his daughter. by Jan Gross; American Chica, by Marie Arana; The Lost Children of Wilder, by Nina Bernstein; My Story as Told by Water, by David James Duncan; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, by Andrew Solomon Poetry: Rooms Are Never Finished, by Agha Shadid Ali; Mercurochrome, by Wanda Coleman; Poems Seven, by Alan Dugan;Brutal Imagination, by Cornelius Eady; and They Can't Take That Away From Me, by Gail Mazur Young People’s Literature: : A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson; | The Tiger in U.S.History, by Phillip Hoose; A Step From Heaven, by An Na;.and True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff. —Melinda Miller Qa The Nationals ‘The nominees for this year’s National Book Awards, to be NATIVE AMERICAN EVENTS from the largely tributes. 1azers | suggested by she defeated was her husband (she dry desert,” “shrewd —_busi- || Nominees Listed for Utah, National Book Awards | . portraits are ‘ time,” belong to a men be lynched, founded APaceotheMomsAlain G9= Peeeees @. The Prayer ofJabec. Bruce H. nik (Random touse) D outlines. Her whoever lived,” and Mildred“Babe fo whom Di ksonm Zaharias, Zahi blazer). At the be- oti h hoes Metiond e Jacqueline Cochran, whom Mul- truly understand the lives Mulford 14. Disobedience. Jane Hamilton Cnchor) 15. Drowning Ruth. Christina is = to truly understand the ford calls “The greatest woman pilot to outlines. Her portraits are largely 3. Personal History. Katharine ComVue) oe Welch (Warnes rae oa: Nancy Milford enough 13. The Feast of Love. Charles Baxter (Vintage) aaa B Central inIslam, and Fundamentalism Asia. Ahmed Rashid (Yal i eee Press) extensive greatest felives. None of the 20 portraits pre- says is “Consideredmaletheathlete of all sive illus. Stephanie Shieldhouse (Vintage) barasdgreioenrJ (Warner) 6. Wild Blue. Stephen E. Ambrose “4 Butthis is a book most likely tobe read bygirls. Teen-age girls. Girls late Mifflin) Schwarz (Ballantine) i Trade Paperback Nonfiction 1, Bin Laden: The Man WhoDeclared War on America. Yossef portraits ted i presei booksUethis because hey nese Techallenges (ete) et ee i ties 2001. i by Barbara Kingx Edited 11. Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner) 12. Lying Awake. Mark Salzman; Noneofthe 20 e Twenty Amazing Western Women, by education, personal choice, or high Karen Surina Mulford, should be read from others by boys as much as by girls. - Boys Winnemucca was the daughter of a : needed to learn that womenas well as castah ee the Ee dian tribes). of admirable contributions to poverty-ridden made men society. Girlswereencouragedtoread Yet each, when thrust into a position in high schoolorearly in college,girls planning their becomii‘ing womeln and planning 13, Lake Wobegon Summer 1958. Sciver @ Katrina Kenison Houghton hs Keillor (Viking) 4. Good Harborr. AnitaDiament _as slave/wife to a French Canadian be Ahab's Wife. Sena Jeter Naslund wee Smoke Jumper. Nicholas ane Cains) : BOOK REVIEWS OF REGIONAL INTEREST ss 4. A Bend in the Road. Nicholas ee spondShuster Sunday, October 28, 2001 Blessing Ceremony Children’s Story Hour Weaving Demonstration Grandmothers Speak Powwow Dancers Entertainment MEIC CCU SED IONE HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST & CONCERT Monday, October 29+ 7 p.m.,Abravanel Hall SPECIAL Event FUND RAISER ENTERTAINMENT, Stow & SALE 10% off rugs this night only November 2, 2001 A musicalsalute to the world’s greatest SUPERHEROES! 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Tickets $25 per adult ¢ $10 children under 12 Navajo Ruc SHow & SALE CONTINUES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC November 3 - 4, 2001 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Admission $5.00 and/or canned food ae For information call 435-649-0535 Navajo Rug Show& Sale Towa ia 2-4 irk City, Utah UTAH SYMP HON Y |
