{"product_id":"ledfeather-9781573661461","title":"Ledfeather","description":"\u003cb\u003eA story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with \u003ci\u003eThe Fast Red Road\u003c\/i\u003e and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with \u003ci\u003eThe Bird is Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, Ledfeather lays bare the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But through Doby 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 collapsing in on him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Graham Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is a Blackfoot Native American and author of numerous novels, including the award-winning FC2 novels \u003ci\u003eThe Fast Red Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bird is Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, and one award-winning short story collection, \u003ci\u003eBleed Into Me\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Ivena Baldwin professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"F2c","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719194906898,"sku":"9781573661461","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b01f566-52b4-40c9-ad56-0db3808f8c0f.jpg?v=1734661915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ledfeather-9781573661461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}