Follows the youngest two siblings of Miꞌkmaw family who travelled to Maine as seasonal farm workers. The girl is stolen and raised by a white family, knowing nothing of her heritage or true history, while her absence and other family losses haunt the boy.

Both sibling tell their stories in retrospect, framing them with the context of the truths they now know, and the reader understands going in that the family finds each other eventually. The structure makes the story a slowly rolling reveal, a study of different ways to break and remake relationships. They both keep trying to frame and reframe their lives in ways that make sense, to varying degrees of success.

I liked how knowing the ending by the start took away any potboiler element, and let the novel focus on the themes of family and grief. I also appreciated the background lesbians.