Blue Rodeo

Margaret Yearwood is weighed down by a failed marriage, a resentful son who lost his hearing to meningitis, and the gradual fading of her artistic ambitions. She retreats to Blue Dog, New Mexico, a town in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain.

There, with the unexpected Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love and be loved again. She also comes to see that even the deepest wounds can heal over, and that passion is a powerful source of renewal.

The novel is a bittersweet story about ordinary people who must mend their family bonds before those bonds are lost for good. Its opening epigraph says that those who forget family history are doomed to repeat it.