bbPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realizeb. bA contemporary classic, this astonishing literary debut Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of iThe Handmaid's Talei places Native American voices front and center before readers' eyes NPRiFresh Airi.b pbAmong them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American--grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and sp