I really enjoyed my reading experience with this one. The writing flows nicely, it tackles a lot of heavy themes, and I didn’t want to put it down. The characters are richly textured (absolutely love the main character Virgil - so wonderfully flawed and complex) and there are some shocking moments of violence. It’s crime fiction that is both slow burn and character driven (two of my FAVORITE descriptors), but the storyline also goes in directions I didn’t anticipate. That being said, once I got a handle on what was happening in the first half then some events in the second half were kind of predictable.

I’m trying to read more works by indigenous authors, and that’s one reason I picked this one up (plus my wife read it and loved it; she generally has good taste