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Pima Road
Waspy Yale lawyer, Sarah Livingstone, on a training run with her Shih Tzu, collides with American Indian sculptor Jimmy Zah and his big lab, Joe. The dogs have a furious dust-up. Annoyed when a hysterical Sarah accuses him of letting Joe run free on a public path, Jimmy retorts that she s trespassing on his Pima Reservation. A few days later Jimmy rescues Sarah and Yo Yo from the waters of a fast-moving canal. Despite their inauspicious beginning, they learn they re both training to run in the New York Marathon. Slowly their relationship builds around the goal of the marathon. When they begin to realize they re falling in love, Sarah s parents come to town. Her mother is appalled to find her daughter serious about an American Indian. Sarah wavers. Uneasy now, she backs away. Jimmy is offended and heartbroken. He breaks off with her, now sure their cultures are too different for her to overcome. From Phoenix to an Indian Pow Wow, Navajo and Pima Reservations, to the New York Marathon, Jimmy and Sarah wrestle with the difficulties of an interracial relationship.
245 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2006
About the author
Virginia Nosky
14 books1 followerVirginia Nosky is a prize winning author, screenwriter, and published poet. She has worked in advertising and broadcasting and was a long-time docent at the Phoenix Art Museum. Nosky is involved with community organizations, currently on the Women's Board of the Arizona Kidney Foundation and a member of its Board of Trustees. She and her husband Richard are active with Ballet Arizona. She attended Ohio State University and graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in French.
The author sets her stories for the most part in Arizona and the southwest. She believes its climate and topography are inherently theatrical and add to the drama. She has lived in Paradise Valley for over twenty five years with her husband, two boys and a succession of horses, Siamese cats, Golden retrievers and Springer spaniels. The current housedogs are Golden Retriever Rescue dog, Barkis and Fox Red Labrador Retriever Rescue, Peaches.
Virginia Nosky's first novel, a love story set in Arizona, involves world-wide trafficking of Native American art objects. KACHINA won the Arizona Book Publishers Association's 2005 Glyph Award for Romantic Fiction.
Virginia's second novel, CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, is a love story set against a hotly contested campaign for governor of Arizona. This book won a 2005 Arizona Authors Association Award for Fiction.
Nosky's third novel, PIMA ROAD was published in October, 2006. It is a multicultural love story between a waspy Yale lawyer and a Pima/Navajo sculptor and won a second for the 2006 Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishers Association.
BLUE TURQUOISE, WHITE SHELL explores more deeply a multi-cultural, multi-generational story. It is part history, part contemporary. Cabot Chase, to fulfill a promise to her grandfather, goes to the Navajo Indian Hospital in Arizona after her graduation from medical school. She meets Nicholas Nakai, a young Navajo lawyer running for the US House of Representatives in a newly drawn congressional district. As their friendship deepens, they experience the qualms of an inter-racial relationship, as well as the disapproval of his tribal elders. Woven through the main story is the historical background concerning a distant uncle of Cabot's and an Indian woman he became involved with in 1952. Their son Kaab't is the common ancestor of Cabot and Nicholas.
BLUE TURQUOISE, WHITE SHELL won the 2008 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction, at the Los Angeles Book Expo. It has won three 2008 Glyph Awards from the Arizona Book Publishing Association
TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, due out in late 2008 concerns a gorgeous and mega-brainy model and the skeptical, sarcastic professor and renowned television science personality who is the faculty advisor for her PhD dissertation in Theoretical Physics.
Nosky's poem Southwest Summer, published in the International Who's Who in Poetry, won an award from the Arizona authors Association. Other published poems include Heavenly Music, The Colors of Life, Kisses and Love in Bloom.
Memberships include the International Women's Writing Guild, Romance Writers of America, National Association of Women Writers, Scottsdale Writers Group, Arizona Book Publishers and Southwest Writers Association.
TO CONTACT VIRGINIA: www.virginianosky.com
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The author sets her stories for the most part in Arizona and the southwest. She believes its climate and topography are inherently theatrical and add to the drama. She has lived in Paradise Valley for over twenty five years with her husband, two boys and a succession of horses, Siamese cats, Golden retrievers and Springer spaniels. The current housedogs are Golden Retriever Rescue dog, Barkis and Fox Red Labrador Retriever Rescue, Peaches.
Virginia Nosky's first novel, a love story set in Arizona, involves world-wide trafficking of Native American art objects. KACHINA won the Arizona Book Publishers Association's 2005 Glyph Award for Romantic Fiction.
Virginia's second novel, CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, is a love story set against a hotly contested campaign for governor of Arizona. This book won a 2005 Arizona Authors Association Award for Fiction.
Nosky's third novel, PIMA ROAD was published in October, 2006. It is a multicultural love story between a waspy Yale lawyer and a Pima/Navajo sculptor and won a second for the 2006 Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishers Association.
BLUE TURQUOISE, WHITE SHELL explores more deeply a multi-cultural, multi-generational story. It is part history, part contemporary. Cabot Chase, to fulfill a promise to her grandfather, goes to the Navajo Indian Hospital in Arizona after her graduation from medical school. She meets Nicholas Nakai, a young Navajo lawyer running for the US House of Representatives in a newly drawn congressional district. As their friendship deepens, they experience the qualms of an inter-racial relationship, as well as the disapproval of his tribal elders. Woven through the main story is the historical background concerning a distant uncle of Cabot's and an Indian woman he became involved with in 1952. Their son Kaab't is the common ancestor of Cabot and Nicholas.
BLUE TURQUOISE, WHITE SHELL won the 2008 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction, at the Los Angeles Book Expo. It has won three 2008 Glyph Awards from the Arizona Book Publishing Association
TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, due out in late 2008 concerns a gorgeous and mega-brainy model and the skeptical, sarcastic professor and renowned television science personality who is the faculty advisor for her PhD dissertation in Theoretical Physics.
Nosky's poem Southwest Summer, published in the International Who's Who in Poetry, won an award from the Arizona authors Association. Other published poems include Heavenly Music, The Colors of Life, Kisses and Love in Bloom.
Memberships include the International Women's Writing Guild, Romance Writers of America, National Association of Women Writers, Scottsdale Writers Group, Arizona Book Publishers and Southwest Writers Association.
TO CONTACT VIRGINIA: www.virginianosky.com
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August 13, 2009
"Pima Road" is the fascinating tale of two cultures whose love cannot be ignored. Ms. Nosky craftfully presents Native American culture as very few writers can.
August 12, 2009
Brought alive the chasm between a romance in the white world and the native american world. Pima Raod isn't only a geographical boundary, but a cultural boundary as well
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