House Made of Dawn

About this book

A young Native American Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his fathers wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons the harsh beauty of the land and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other worldmodern industrial Americapulls at Abel demanding his loyalty trying to claim his soul and goading him into a destructive compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. An American classic House Made of Dawn is at once a tragic tale about the disabling effects of war and cultural separation and a hopeful story of a stranger in his native land finding his way back to all that is familiar and sacred.