3.5 I really appreciated this book for the content and writing. It highlights a really important subject and she managed to write about it from the perspective of a 13 year old boy in a really believable, authentic way. But it took me a long while to get into the pacing and I found myself skimming past a lot of descriptive text that didn’t feel important. I definitely still think it’s worth reading if you don’t need a page turner and am really interested in reading more by Erdrich.