For whatever reason, I did not realize that this book took place in the 1960s until I started reading it, and that was a pleasant surprise. As you can read in the notes at the end of the book, it is clear that Edwardson did her research on the unique plights of Native peoples during this time period, and even the events in the book that sound beyond belief are based on actual events. 
 This book has multiple narrators, and while this was a great device to show a wide variety of experiences, I also had issues with it. First, all but one characters' chapters were told in first person, which left me puzzled when the narration jumped to third person in those few chapters. The constant switching also made it hard for me to follow how quickly time was progressing, especially when characters' opinions/feelings towards each other would develop but the reader only got to see Point A and Point B. 
 Important to have in a classroom in terms of providing opportunities to explore unseen parts of our history, but because of the confusing timeline, it is not one that I would want to teach.