Trinity Sight is a deeply satisfying book an accessible, imminently readable inter-genre page-turner that is also, for those who need it, a cathartic spiritual journey. While searching, however subconsciously, for a bridge back to her roots, Trinity Sight opens on a literal bridge at the onset of an epic ecological disaster that vanishes most of humankind from the face of the earth, leaving Calliope alone in the wreckage of New Mexico-heavily pregnant with twins. It is in this state that Calliope’s story begins. It is this personal, familial connection that drives Calliope’s work while her science-trained mind tries to stick to the rational, her heart has been searching for a means to heal the rifts of grief and guilt, and the many mundane injuries that pass from mothers and daughters. Like Givhan herself, Calliope can trace her lineage back to the Pueblo culture that once peopled the American Southwest, including the iconic city at Chaco Canyon, mysteriously abandoned long before white colonization. Trinity Sight (published by Blackstone Publishing in late 2019) centers on archaeologist Calliope Santiago. This is the powerhouse pedigree Givhan brings to her debut novel which is to say, when you pick up Trinity Sight, prepare for a bang. She is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts and a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, among other honors, and her work has been widely published in some of the most notable venues in the literary world. Her book-length collections of poetry include Rosa’s Einstein(University of Arizona Press, 2019), Girl with Death Mask(Indiana University Press, 2017), Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Series, University of Arkansas Press), and Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize).

Jennifer Givhan is an award-winning New Mexican author.

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