Reservation Nation

"The story of the Uwharrie is told by Warren Eubanks, who first must unlearn the lessons of his childhood: "There was a lot of not-saying on the Reservation, when I was a kid. I learned it." Possessed of a keenly observant nature, the boy Warren - whose Indian name is The Seed - sees smoke of varying colors around the adults who people his world; his imperative is to figure out what each color means. He does it in the only way he knows how: by observing. By the time he is an adult, Warren has collected myriad stories whose protagonists are propelled by a fierce independence, yet are intertwined through a shared land, a common fate, and the engaging and infectious humor with which Warren portrays them." "There is Grandmother, a weaver of lives whose death at the start of the book doesn't erase her presence throughout it; and Grandfather, a man of few words who said them a long time ago, but who at the close of his life offers surprises of his own. There is Chief Billy, who wrangles the tribe's economic life like a Las Vegas wheeler-dealer; Ruay Overmoon, Thomas Matoas Paint, Ruby Kehoe, and a dozen other richly conceived characters. And there is Sun Susie, who loves horses and Marlb