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Brent Hightower
Brent Hightower, author of The Broken World was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1962 and raised in the village of Placitas, New Mexico. His family was deeply divided by the Vietnam War and steeped in the destructive legasy of the Irish diaspora; out of which his great-grandfather emigrated after murdering a tax collector during the notorious mass eveictions in Skibbereen. Before attending the University of New Mexico and studying creative writing with Rudolfo Anaya, among others, he worked at the Kennicott copper mine in Silver City, New Mexico, and in the West-Texas oil fields, around Midland-Odessa, among other jobs, before marrying and moving to Michigam's Upper Pennsula where he managed a natural foods cooperative and established an organic farm on the banks of the Yellow Dog River, near Lake Superior. Since 1997 he has resided with his wife, Lauren, and daughter, Maeve, in Hawaii. A work of violent social conflicts and psychological discord, set in New Mexico in the 1960's,The Broken World traces a year in the life of twelve-year-old Byrd Keane, growing up in a family and a community torn apart by differences regarding the fundamental meaning and value of the human expierence. Mr. Hightower is now at work on a sequal set a generation later, in the same geographical vicinity of New Mexico, a place baring little resemblence to that of the first novel.