This well received historical novel is about the clearing of the Native Americans in the 1850s. The novel follows the lives of two soldiers in the Civil War fighting for the North. These soldiers are ordered to do ghastly things, and endure many terrible hardships together. It's sort of a also a love story between these two men, or maybe a companionship is a better term for it. These men keep trying to just live their life without all the war and killing but find themselves continually drawn back into the fray. I loved the writing style the author employed. The writing is written in a relaxed way, as though we are reading the main character's diary. This novel won the Costa Book Award (2016) and it's easy to see way. It really captures the mood of the time, and the difficult life of a soldier, a man, and of course for the Native Americans. Reading this novel was like stepping back in time to a place I'd rather not live but was glad to read about.