“…the strangest, most horrific story that Grann has told … Grann folds it, neatly, into three hundred pages. But he also makes something much more out of the material—something deep, devastating, and almost unbearably sad. On the one hand, he takes in the entirety of what was done to the Osage and, by extension, to the American Indian. On the other, he paints intimate portraits of men and women who’d murder their husbands, their wives, their own children … What we’re left with are circles of complicity that widen and widen until, terrifyingly, they grow to encompass the reader as well.”
–Alex Abramovich, Bookforum, April/May 2017
