I got this from the Dominion City book club last summer and finally read it! This book was a pleasure to read, with snappy conversations and low-key show-don’t-tell narration. Jared is a teen Native just trying to make his way through life despite his rough home situation. He’s a good kid with an appealing mixture of toughness, thoughtfulness, and black humor, which sustains the reader through the continual drumbeat of intergenerational trauma that we see all around him. The introduction of the Indigenous mythical elements is a slow burn; it’s not until near the end that Jared figures out that the voices and visions he experiences are not just drug-induced hallucinations. The pacing feels more like a Part 1 than a standalone novel, but the writing is good enough that I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of the trilogy.