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Ledfeather | Stephen Graham Jones
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After 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 through Doby there emerges a connection to the past, to an Indian Agent who served the United States Government over a century before. This revelation leads to another and another until it becomes clear that the decisions of this single Indian Agent have impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians. And the life of Doby Saxon, a boy standing in the middle of the road at night, his hands balled into fists, the reservation wheeling all around him like the whole of Blackfeet history hurtling towards him. Jones’s beautifully complex novel is a story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be: the power of one moment, the weight of one decision, the inevitability of one outcome, and the price of one life.
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Ledfeather | Stephen Graham Jones
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#12BooksOf2022

Last, but definitely not least, my December favorite was the tagged book—Jones has become an automatic buy for me and he never disappoints. The other three, including a new graphic novel from Liu & Takeda, the team behind Monstress, were also entertaining reads.

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Andrew65 Another excellent book, thanks for playing along. 1y
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The book goes back & forth between two storylines—in the first, on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, readers see the life of Doby Saxon unfold through the eyes of those he encounters. In the second, set over a century earlier, readers follow an Indian Agent for the US government & the short & long term consequences of his decisions. Powerful, heartbreaking, & compelling, this book gives you lots to think about. Another great read from Jones.

SamAnne Such a fan…but has missed this one. 1y
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Working my way through Jones‘s backlist and I‘m reading this one next.

RebelReader I‘ve never heard of this author but this one sounds intriguing. 1y
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Ledfeather | Stephen Graham Jones

...then perhaps the fitting equivalent to Hell for a white man would simply be to be forced to live life as one of his subjects.

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One of the most unusual novels l've read. Organised in a dual timeline, one in today's Blackfeet reservation, the other in the same place more than 100 years earlier.

In this second timeline, an lndian Agent writes letters to his betrothed about his life in the reservation. Letters he never sends out or even mean to send out. As the letters get more and more obsessive, we come to wonder whether this woman even exists.
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writerlibrarian Lovely cover 7y
batsy So intriguing! And yet another for the TBR pile 😅 7y
JazzFeathers @writerlibrarian l know, right? Thecover bought me, but l liked the story too (which is not always the case 😒 7y
JazzFeathers @batsy lt is a very unusyal one, but l liked it 😀 7y
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