Hey gang, I'd like your help. Lone Dog Road just made the short list for the fiction book of the year on Reading the West and I need your vote.
I've been out speaking about the book -- 7000 miles on America's highways and backroads -- and folks love it, which pleases me greatly. Its a radical book, because I took the risk of having no narrator, just good people speaking intimately to you, the reader, from their own point of view.
Many authors do this, but few allow their characters to speak so deeply and honestly from the heart. They don't tell the story, they are the story, and what they reveal becomes their part of the journey of little Levi and Reuben, ages 11 and 6, on the run across the Dakotas to get a piece of pipestone to make a new Chanunpa for their great grandfather. It's a good story, well told. I call it a spiritual road mystery and it is a near kin to Neither Wolf nor Dog, The Wolf at Twilight, and The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo.
So, please go to https://readingthewest.shelf-awareness.com/readingthewest... and vote for LDR. I really think this is an important book that reaches across spiritual and cultural boundaries. It was and is for me an affair of the heart.