Ваша оценкаThere There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.
Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe’s Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the eve of Mack’s reelection, their tenuous grip on ...
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ISBN:
9781668046463
Год издания:
2025
Язык:
Английский
320 pages, Hardcover
Возрастные ограничения:
18+
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SARAH MCEACHERN, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
"An entertaining political thriller ... Underneath its suspense and satire is a real understanding of 21st-century Native American experience; Hickey's depiction of the reality of reservation life eschews stereotypes and caricatures in favor of complex, multifaceted people ... What really makes Big Chief special, though, is the author's deep understanding of the complex social, cultural, and legal politics of reservation life ... Big Chief understands the unique double consciousness of what it means to be Native American—the political workings of a tribe, the meaning of belonging under Indian law. But the novel is smart enough to keep all these ideas swirling, using them as the backdrop for an engrossing political thriller."
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