Ledfeather

Ledfeather

First Edition Cover
Author	Stephen Graham Jones
Cover artist	Jacket design by
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	FC2
Publication date	August 8, 2008
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	216 pp (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by	Demon Theory
Followed by	The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

Ledfeather is a 2008 novel by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones, published by FC2 (Fiction Collective Two).

Plot summary

A young Blackfoot man discovers the 1883 letters of an Indian Agent, whose decisions have "impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians."

Characters

Doby Saxon 

a Blackfoot living on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

Motifs

"Cyclical stuff, iterations, rhythm (which is just repetition with variance)—I can’t seem to stay away from it," was the author's comment in a 2008 interview with Rain Taxi online.

Reception

Foreword Reviews described the work as "hallucinogenic lyricism and a nonlinear narrative."

Lit Pub reviewer Edward J. Rathke found the novel to be a remedy for heartbreak: "The next thing I knew, the sun was rising and my heart was breaking, but in a good way, the way that resurrects you, that shows you everything you forgot to pay attention to, forgot to remember, and I closed it because it was done, again, finished for the third time, and I could’ve turned back to page one and began again, which is how the first two readings happened, in consecutive days, because this book burns you, burrows deep, and smolders, lives, reconnects cells, and balances chemistry."

See also

• The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000)
• All The Beautiful Sinners (2003)
• The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (2003)
• Bleed Into Me (2005)
• Demon Theory (2006)
• The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (2008)