A nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so thoroughly ours.
Reynolds Price, "The New York Times Book Review"
For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel.
"The New Republic"
An unnervingly beautiful book.
Roger Sale, "The New York Review of Books"
aA nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so thoroughly ours.a
aReynolds Price, "The New York Times Book Review"
aFor some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel.a
a"The New Republic"
aAn unnervingly beautiful book.a
aRoger Sale, "The New York Review of Books"
a A nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so thoroughly ours.a
aReynolds Price, "The New York Times Book Review"
a For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel.a
a"The New Republic"
a An unnervingly beautiful book.a
aRoger Sale, "The New York Review of Books"
"A nearly flawless novel about human life . . . Few books in any year speak so unanswerably, make their own local terms so thoroughly ours."
-Reynolds Price,
The New York Times Book Review "For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others it will simply be a brilliant novel."
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The New Republic "An unnervingly beautiful book."
-Roger Sale,
The New York Review of Books
James Welch is the author of the novels
Winter in the Blood,
Fools Crow, for which he received the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award,
The Indian Lawyer,
The Death of Jim Lonely, and most recently,
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, and he graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo. Until recently, he served on the Montana State Board of Pardons. He lives in Missoula with his wife, Lois.
Bestselling author Louise Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and is of German and Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. Her novels include Love Medicine and The Beet Queen.