" The book is concerned with nature

Focusing on the Albuquerque Indian School in New Mexico

and reconciliation

rather than the reverse

It is a longing for home

Old School Indian indigenous crafts " The book is concernedA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe