Raw ... Wink wants to move and excite the reader more than to educate or argue, and judged on those terms the novel is largely a success ... The novel is deliberately fast-paced from the beginning, made up of short unnumbered chapters, some less than a page long. This speed is exhilarating, but in the last quarter it also encourages an unfortunate kind of sketchiness.
Meditative and startling ... Evokes the breathtaking beauty of Yellowstone in its tense exploration of the complicated love and survival of two brothers.
