A magnificently honest and intensely personal extended letter to his children ... The stories spill off the pages in a non-linear fashion, moving from family episodes of violence and grief and determination to national moments of the same ... A deeply moving reminiscence about the meaning and nature of our country 250 years after its founding, one that we might not want, but which we desperately need.
Eviscerating ... [A] piercing and propulsive treatise on the distorted relationship between America’s violent history and its treasured frontier mythology.
Searing ... Treuer’s elegiac narrative probes how family intersects with systems of power, and taps the deepest wells of feeling. It’s a singularly powerful work.
