Off the Reservation

Five years have passed since the massacre on the Blackfeet reservation in Stephen Graham Joness breakout bestseller The Only Good Indians. Nathan Yellow Tail, one of the survivors of the revenge murders, finds himself in the hospital after a terrible accident that shouldve killed him and that nearly killed his best friend, Sebby, who is hanging on to life in a room a few doors down. Nates life is out of balance, so when he is given the chance to reset his life, and maybe save Sebby in the process, Nate steps up, again. This time its into a camper van that is almost as run down as his broken body, filled with three older Blackfeet, to find the bones of the lone Blackfeet boy who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial Schoolwhere many Indigenous children were abusedand repatriate this boy home. The problem is, when they get the bones, something terrible has escaped with them. By turns terrifying and deeply moving, Off the Reservation is a haunting American Indian novel of survival, reckoning, and redemption, shining light on the dark corners of this countrys history while also showing the desperate choices people make when theyre put up against a wall.