Virgil Wounded Horse is an enforcer on a Lakota community when he is given an opportunity to get rid of the heroin coming into town. Things don‘t go as expected and family gets caught up. There were parts of this in the beginning that were clunky but I really warmed up to it as there was a real likability to this book. The characters, the daily life on the Rez, the Lakota ways and spirituality, and a fractured community doing its best to survive.
New rule! If anything bad is happening to a kid, that is not resolved inside a chapter, I reserve the right to skim the book to completion, only because I can't DNF without making sure they're okay. I was interested in reading the discussions this book had, but I could see pretty easily where the plot was going and I HATE suspense generated by child endangerment. I appreciate the author's note, might try another book by Weiden in the future.