How the World Moves

Praise for How the World Moves

“[A] dazzling biography of a man whose life both spanned and exemplified extraordinary cultural changes . . . How the World Moves generates its own dizzying cosmology, a universe in which cultures collide, indigenous people become refugees, and many have to ‘strike hard bargains between tradition and progress.’”
– The Boston Globe

“For me what emerges in the story of Edward Hunt and his family is how resilient and generous-hearted they were.”
– Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books
 
“A very good book. . .the background Nabokov provides. . .is as rich as any American story can be, with twists and turns and unlikely alliances.”
– The Portland Oregonian

 “A comprehensively researched biographical epic. . .How the World Moves is not only Hunt’s story, it is also a history of the time he lived in and the socioeconomic forces that shaped that time.” 
– The Santa Fe New Mexican                                                   

“Colonialism and dispossession cast such a shadow over the American past that it takes extraordinary effort to uncover the complexity and inventiveness of the indigenous people whose home this is.  This brilliant family biography shines a floodlight onto the last century of Indian experience, lifting some of that shadow and revealing extraordinary people who were both heroic survivors and creative architects of a new, modern identity. Nabokov has produced an epic, instructive tale.  If you thought you understood America and its past: think again.” 
– Frederick E. Hoxie, author of This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
 
“Peter Nabokov’s How the World Moves is a beautiful journey over a terrain of race, culture, and Native American identity.  Nobody weaves American Indian lore together with the tick-tock realities of the modern condition more brilliantly than Nabokov.”
– Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior:  Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
 
“How the World Moves is doubly unique.  The Hunt family’s atypical trajectory within Pueblo society is well served by the rare depth of Peter Nabokov’s friendship, knowledge, and research.” – Lucy R. Lippard, author of Partial Recall:  Photographs of Native North Americans