The Shaman’’s Apprentice: Saving Rebecca

Faye Westlake Newman has lived in the amazing diversity that is the state of Oregon for most of her life and writes about the kind of people and places that populate the state. Her preference is not the cities, great and small, but the backroads, the mountains and high plains and the wild shorelines. She loves the people, the kicky and kooky, the quiet and apparently ordinary, the warm and fuzzy, and the lively and outspoken, who live in Oregon. After 10 years away as a young adult, she couldn’t wait to get back to the salt-laden wind, the wide open beaches, and the green. Especially the green; yellow green, emerald green, hunter green, olive green-- green everywhere, all the time, so much vegetation, there are many places where a sturdy hiker cannot walk through the brush. There is no place else to live. Raised and educated here, Faye is forever grateful to the hard-as-nails English teachers whotaught her to love the language and the words that paint pictures. She considers it an unparalleled privilege to have written and published a book herself.