from the fc2 web­site :

After burn­ing up all the black­top New Mex­ico had to offer with The Fast Red Road and rewrit­ing the Great Plains into a place both more and less Indian than they already were with The Bird is Gone , Stephen Gra­ham Jones has now brought the story up to Mon­tana. And it’s leaner than it’s ever been. Not because it’s about the Black­feet, who have been schooled by the gov­ern­ment on how to starve, but because this time the story is just about one Indian boy, stand­ing in the mid­dle of the road at night, try­ing so hard to change his­tory. And these next moments, the head­lights already throw­ing his shadow miles behind him, across all of Amer­ica, these next moments are going to decide every­thing. Bal­anced on the knife edge of win­ter like the Black­feet have always been, a sin­gle act can res­onate for gen­er­a­tions. This is Led­feather. The story of Doby Saxon, stand­ing in that road just out­side Brown­ing, his hands balled into fists, the reser­va­tion wheel­ing all around him like he’s what the last hun­dred years have been hurtling towards.

And maybe he is.

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Order it on Ama­zon, or, even bet­ter, through Powell’s.

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