Update on Lone Dog Road
An official release date –November 21 — has now been set for Lone Dog Road, my new novel described as “a picaresque tale of compassion and redemption played out against the haunting backdrop of the American high plains during the drought-stricken summer of 1950.”
It took a courageous young company, Polished Stone Publishing, to get this to you. The major publishers were afraid of exactly what I consider the strength of the book — my choice to have people of different races and backgrounds speak in the first person about the journey of two young Lakota boys in search of pipestone to replace the čhaŋnúŋpa — or sacred pipe — of their aged great grandfather.
The first person is a dangerous device because you are speaking from within someone, not about someone. No external narrator, no distant perspective. But I believe that one of literature’s most sacred tasks is to use the imagination to enter into the minds and hearts of people unlike ourselves to let us see the world from other points of view. And so I chose to take the chance.
I love Lone Dog Road and the people in it. It is a relative to Neither Wolf nor Dog, but more expansive in its voices. I can’t wait to get it in your hands. I hope you will enjoy it.
More updates will be coming.
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