Winter in the Blood

By James Welch.  The narrator of this beautiful, sometimes bizarre tale is a sensitive, self-destructive young man living on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana.  He is haunted by memories - an older brother dead at age fourteen, his father, found frozen to death in a snowdrift, and of his once-proud heritage.

He sleepwalks through his chores, consoles himself with women.  The vision he sees and the choes he hears are swallowed up in Montana's vast emptiness.  Yet he struggles, searching for something to bind him to the land of his ancestors.

176 pages - Paperback   $14.95