By Beth Piatote

A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. A Nez Perce-Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.

Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection draw on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.

(195 pages)