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''Will Baker lives in the rain shadow of California's North Coast Mountains- rattlesnake, blue clay, and digger pine country-where he raises almonds and teaches at the local university.... He is married and has three children: a daughter, twenty-seven, who is a Tibetan Buddhist nun, a four-year-old son who is currently a dinosaur, and a two-year-old daughter who wants to be a wrestler.'' -From the jacket of Shadow Hunter