I Read Books: Black Hills

In 1876, the 11 year old Lakota Paha Sapa is at the battle of Little Big Horn where he accidentally picks up the ghost of General Custer. In 1936, now named Billy Slovak, he is at the dedication of Mount Rushmore, which he plans to blow up. In between he has had visions and picked up memories of other people; he's lived a life through the destruction of the Plains Indians and into an almost recognisably modern era.

This is a novel of the American West, and how it changes over the length of one long lifetime. It is a novel of ecology, and machinery, and spirituality, and of heritage. Of what happened to the Sioux and the other plains peoples.

And it’s a weird view into the future as well.

Read This: For a magic-touched vision of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Don’t Read This: For easy answers or a simple, clear story.