"One of the year's best works of fiction."
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Chicago Tribune "Moving... Absorbing... Magnificently imagined."
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The Boston Globe "Brilliant... A masterpiece... Charging Elk [is] one of the most resonant characters of our current literature."
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Star Tribune
"Ambitious, moving and altogether nourishing... Welch's novel moves with sensual grace... A novel with an expansiveness of heart and mind, an intimate analogue of Indian estrangement worthy of any readerly voyage."
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Chicago Sun-Times
"Powerful... An engaging, pointed, heartfelt examination of culture clash and the debilitating effects of otherness."
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San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
"Vivid [and] evocative... A story of survival... It's a familiar story, but Welch takes the conceit one step further, creating a Wild West show of his own."
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Los Angeles Times Book Review