Summary

This novel is set in the present day. The novel’s prologue, entitled ‘Williston, North Dakota,’ follows Richard “Ricky” Boss Ribs. Ricky is a Native American of the Blackfeet community. Ricky grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation, but he left years ago. He has been working manual labor jobs, most recently a job with an oil drilling crew. Ricky recently learned that his younger brother, Cheeto, died of a drug overdose in a home on the reservation. Ricky briefly reminisces about when he was still on the reservation, specifically one day when he went out hunting elk and other big game with some of his friends. Ricky arrives at a roadside bar one night and sees an elk. The elk suddenly slams itself into trucks in the parking lot, damaging them and setting off the alarms. The elk flees, and a group of...