Toni Tarango
Toni Tarango

Toni dreamed of creating fiction since her first short story fiction writing class at Berkeley City College in 2003. Twenty years later, she self-published the Between Two Worlds Novella Series which looks at the complexities of a bicultural family of Native American and Irish Catholic ancestry over two generations. Early on, Toni was privileged to interact with culture keepers from Arizona’s Gila River Indian Reservation which loosely serves as the framework for the fictitious Nagchaw Nation of Arizona. You can find The Between Two Worlds Novella Series online at the Oakland Public Library. 


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Books

As The Twig Is Bent: Between Two Worlds (Between Two Worlds Series Book 1)

Joslin is Keith Gentry’s younger sister and is of Native American and Irish Catholic ancestry. Dealing with a family tragedy, she struggles with grief and in the process comes to terms with her long denied psychic gifts. Her mother’s people, the Yellowbird clan, have long been revered as seers of the Nagchaw Nation in Arizona. Joslin learns how...

As The Eagle Soars: At Birth And Beyond (Between Two Worlds Series Book 2)

Older brother, Keith Gentry, is rooted in his Native American mother’s culture and has found meaning and value in their medicine circles, sweat ceremonies, and powwows. His father, Sam, questions his paternity and treats Keith like he is someone else’s son. Keith also is gifted with future sight by way of the Yellowbird clan from which he...

Coming Full Circle: Following the Path with Heart (Between Two Worlds Series Book 3)

Now a revered Nagchaw elder, Jos reminisces about the lessons learned since her life took a dramatic shift in her mid-twenties. Needing to redefine herself after a family tragedy, Jos goes forward in a challenging new direction.

Ultimately, she moves on to the ancestral home of the Yellowbird clan and becomes the Director of the Nagchaw Cultural...

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*I'm currently working on novel #2.

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Messina Raven made the decision to leave the Navajo Nation of New Mexico and move to the Nagchaw...

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Ancestral Wisdom is a glimpse into the Nagchaw Nation of Arizona for Keith Bahe whose primary identity is outside of mainstream culture. As...

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