from observations of the natural world and human connection to poems centered in powerful grief and remembrance for events spanning from the Sandy Lake Tragedy of 1850

Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers

These narrative

This often got her into trouble

Ledfeather louise from observations of the naturalAfter burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends. But