Winter in Blood Author:James Wilch The narrator of this haunting, beautiful, sometimes bizzare novel is a young American Indianof the here-and-now who lives with the memory of death; an older brother,dead at 14, mangled by a car while driving cattle across a Montana highway; a father that made white men laugh at local bars, found frozen to death in a snowdrift. Now, the narrator... more » sleepwalks through chores, is bloodied in honky-tonk brawls, consoles himself with women, contemplates visions,hears echoes. They are swallowed by Montana's vast emptiness. Yet he struggles to come alive, craving all the emotions he has tried to deny his heart; love and loyalty... and a purpose that will root him to the land his ancestors lost.« less