Big Chief

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There, There meets Winter Counts in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, love lost and gained, and the importance of facing one's past head on. Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions. After his mother's sudden death in a car crash, he finished law school and returned to Passage Rouge-the reservation where he grew up-hoping to represent disadvantaged families in tribal court. But that was before he got sucked into the world of Mack Plum, his charismatic childhood friend. Before Mack ran and won the race for Tribal President as an underdog populist. Before they compromised their morals to keep Mack at the head of the tribal council. And before he came face to face once again with his teenage flame, Layla Plum-none other than Mack's sister. Now, on the eve of Passage Rouge's next tribal election, Mitch finds himself torn between two rivals. He's unsettled by his own complicity in Mack's abuse of power, but he doesn't quite trust Mack's opponent, Gloria Hawkins, a nationally ...