After a global disaster referred to as the Big Water, vast swathes of the globe are covered in water.  One of the surviving regions is Dine Navaho Indian territory.  Here, the old legends have returned, the tales once told by Elders are now desperately researched in an effort to understand what is happening. 

Clan powers can re-emerge giving some people extraordinary abilities - but these are not supermen/women, use of these abilities is for a short duration and drains a lot of energy.

 

Characters like Coyote the Trickster are now real and interfering in the lives of ordinary people for their own amusement.

 

Maggie, the protagonist, had a harrowing experience as a teenager, which awakened her clan power - she's a natural killer.  Which makes her unpopular, but necessary, as there are monsters out there that eat people.

 

There's a lot of good stuff in this book, but I found I didn't really relate to either of the main characters, and there were a few points in the plot where I bounced right off it. 

 

 

eg. Why did Maggie believe that Neizghání was the witch they sought - because regardless of a few bits of planted evidence, it was so obviously ridiculous?)  Why did Longarm try to kill Kai?  Can you really get a car to run on whisky for fuel, and if you can, how can she drive so far on so little whisky?