Winterkill

About this book

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father Red Shirt is dead; his wife Loxie has left him and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck leaving him with his son Jack whom he hardly knows Danny uses the magnificent stories of Red Shirt to guide him toward true fatherhood. Together Danny and Jack begin to make a life from the dreams of yesterday and the ruins of todays northwestern reservations.