Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this book is based on the extraordinary life of the author's grandfather, a working-class indigenous man who in the 1950s carried the fight against Native American dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. A powerful fictionalized account that explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling.