Winter in the Blood

An extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage – and his dreams

The narrator of this beautiful, sometimes bizarre tale is a sensitive, self-destructive young man living on the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana. He is haunted by memories – of an older brother, dead at the age of fourteen; of his father (who made white men laugh at the local bar), found frozen to death in a snowdrift; and of his once-proud heritage.

He sleepwalks through his chores, consoles himself with women. The visions he sees and the echoes he hears are swallowed up in Montana’s vast emptiness. Yet he struggles against that emptiness, searching for something that will bind him to the land of his ancestors.