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.. Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world.

Fiction, Indians of North America, Indians of North America Fiction, Indians of North America Social life and customs, Indians of North America Social life and customs Fiction, Northwest, Pacific Fiction, Nouvelles, Pacific Northwest, Short stories, short stories