Oscar Hokeah

I was challenged to be engaged by this book. I led a book discussion on the novel and most of the people were more compelled by the book than I was. To each their own.

This novel is told by an assortment of family members and details the trials of being indigenous in Oklahoma. You get wrapped up in their lives, their flaws, and their successes.

audio fiction (~7 hrs, read by the author with another narrator)

CW/TW: violence, alcoholism, drug addiction.

intergenerational stories told by multiple characters (with mixed indigenous and Mexican roots), each with their own heartbreaking struggles to contend with, and which, when combined, form a portrait of the life of a man named Ever, his family, and a community.

A novel of grace and redemption. If only our greater society lived as the Kiowa and Cherokee do in this beautiful novel.