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The debut novel from the best-selling writer of Don't Let's Go directly to the Canines Tonight and Departing Prior to the Rains Come. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Local American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horses and YOU SELECT Watson, though bound by bloodstream and by land, end up at odds as they grapple with the implications with their shared traditions. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted after the Lakota people by the government contributes to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins will end up in separate directions: Rick decides the path of peace; YOU SELECT, violence. Years pass, so when You Choose acts time in jail, Rick discovers himself increasing twin baby guys orphaned at beginning in his meadow. As the twins mature from babies to teenagers, Rick immerses the guys in their ancestry, showing wonderful and awful tales of how the whole world came to be and affirming their place in the world as the result of all who have come before and can come behind. However when You Choose dividends to the reservation after three years behind pubs, his anger manifests, permanently disrupting the lives of Rick and the guys. A complex story that spans decades and geography, Calm Before Thaw conjures the implications of an oppressed history, how exactly we are bound not only to immediate family but to all or any who have come before and can come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, which is always, connected.
