Summer Attacked by Hatter

Hatter Fox is set in New Mexico in 1973. Teague Summer, a young doctor who works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is summoned to a crowded jail cell in Santa Fe to attend to a wounded Navajo boy. He notices that among the group of about twenty imprisoned youths there is a Navajo girl of about seventeen who appears to be their leader. When he enters the cell, the girl, whose name is Hatter Fox, looks at him with a terrified expression on her face. Then she attacks him, stabbing him in the shoulder with a knife.

Summer Seeks Out Hatter

After Summer recovers, he is curious about Hatter, who is still at the jail. He visits her and observes her in an isolation cell chanting to herself. Within a few days, he receives a request from a social worker from the State Reformatory...