Short novel following the life of a Dene man who was raised traditionally on the land, before being kidnapped to go to residential school, returning with damage, and running straight into the encroachment of the extraction industry, and the resulting northern housing crisis. If you think that sounds depressing and enraging, you are correct! Once the main character is an adult, he seems to spend his life getting systemically screwed over, with no outside help because the whole nation is getting systemically screwed over, and everyone else is equally impoverished and traumatised.

Which all works out to being more of a polemic against colonialism than anything narrative, though if Katłı̨à wanted to impress upon her readers the seriousness of the situation, consider me impressed. There's a nod towards optimism towards the end, with emotional reconnection between members of the shattered family, but mostly it's rough going.