Download or read book Song of the Cicada written by Sandy Santistevan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: Natty Hogue came to the desert seeking change but finds the harsh landscape as immutable as the past she hopes to escape. As director of nurses, she oversees the daily routine at "the San," a remote, Southern California tuberculosis sanitarium in the 1960s.