{"product_id":"the-woman-at-otowi-crossing-paperback","title":"The Woman At Otowi Crossing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman at Otowi Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive, Ohio University Press\/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue \u003ci\u003eThe Woman at Otowi Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e by best-selling author Frank Waters. This new edition features an introduction by Professor Thomas J. Lyon and a foreword by the author's widow, Barbara Waters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe story is quintessential Waters: a parable for the potentially destructive materialism of the mid-twentieth century. The antidote is Helen Chalmer's ability to understand a deeper truth of her being; beyond the Western notion of selfhood, beyond the sense of a personality distinct from the rest, she experiences a new and wider awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe basis for an opera of the same name, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman at Otowi Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e is the powerful story of the crossing of cultures and lives: a fable for our times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370058350815,"sku":"9780804008938","price":25.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aQHgOFOcHI9780804008938.webp?v=1789150272","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-woman-at-otowi-crossing-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}