In Papberback July 25, 2023: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | Bookshop | IndieBound

Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize
Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

A TIME Must-Read Book of 2022
A BookPage Best Fiction Book of 2022
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction and Best Debut Book of 2022

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. ​

Oscar Hokeah’s electric debut takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle, whose family—part Mexican, part Native American—is determined to hold onto their community despite obstacles everywhere they turn. Ever’s father is injured at the hands of corrupt police on the border when he goes to visit family in Mexico, while his mother struggles both to keep her job and care for her husband. And young Ever is lost and angry at all that he doesn’t understand, at this world that seems to undermine his sense of safety. Ever’s relatives all have ideas about who he is and who he should be.

 “We need these characters and their testimonies. But more than that, we crave –I crave—this kind of honest storytelling. These rhythms. These dances. This beauty. This welcoming to a place where the people speak and are unafraid.”
—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

“A profound reflection on the intergenerational nature of cultural trauma… Hokeah’s characters exist at the intersection of Kiowa, Cherokee and Mexican identity, which provides a vital exploration of indigeneity in contemporary American letters.”
—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Quaking with age-old righteous anger but nevertheless luminescent with hope.”
—ELLE