I loved everything about this book, from the ambivalence of the main character - a man who isn't a full-blooded Lakota but who is culturally a full member of the Rosebud community - to the relationship with his nephew to the way the boy's brush with drugs illuminates failures of criminal "justice" on the rez. I know the setting, and it all felt true, while showing me things I hadn't seen. The writing is often poetic, but also at times really funny, angry, sad, all handled with the right amount of restraint. An excellent novel.