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A story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be

After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, Ledfeather lays bare the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends.

But through Doby emerges a connection to the past, to an Indian Agent who served the United States government over a century before. This revelation leads to another and another until it becomes clear that the decisions of this single Indian agent have impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians—and the life of Doby Saxon, a boy standing in the middle of the road at night, his hands balled into fists, the reservation wheeling all around him like the whole of Blackfeet history collapsing in on him.

Jones’s beautifully complex novel is a story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be: the power of one moment, the weight of one decision, the inevitability of one outcome, and the price of one life.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-9
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  1. I remember you.
  2. pp. 9-10
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  1. Chapter 1
  2. pp. 11-14
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  1. Chapter 2
  2. pp. 15-19
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  1. Chapter 3
  2. pp. 20-24
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  1. Chapter 4
  2. pp. 25-33
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  1. Chapter 5
  2. pp. 34-38
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  1. Chapter 6
  2. pp. 39-46
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  1. Chapter 7
  2. pp. 47-48
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  1. Chapter 8
  2. pp. 49-53
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  1. Chapter 9
  2. pp. 54-55
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  1. Chapter 10
  2. pp. 56-60
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  1. Chapter 11
  2. pp. 61-63
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  1. Chapter 12
  2. pp. 64-67
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  1. Chapter 13
  2. pp. 68-71
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  1. Chapter 14
  2. pp. 72-73
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  1. Chapter 15
  2. pp. 74-75
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  1. Chapter 16
  2. pp. 76-79
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  1. Chapter 17
  2. pp. 80-92
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  1. Chapter 18
  2. pp. 93-122
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  1. Chapter 19
  2. pp. 123-143
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  1. Chapter 20
  2. pp. 144-146
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  1. Chapter 21
  2. pp. 147-148
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  1. Chapter 22
  2. pp. 149-157
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  1. Chapter 23
  2. pp. 158-159
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  1. Chapter 24
  2. pp. 159-180
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  1. Chapter 25
  2. pp. 181-186
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  1. Chapter 26
  2. pp. 187-192
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  1. Chapter 27
  2. pp. 193-198
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  1. Chapter 28
  2. pp. 199-204
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  1. Chapter 29
  2. pp. 205-213
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  1. Author Note
  2. pp. 215-216
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