{"product_id":"lone-dog-road-9781608689941","title":"Lone Dog Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA tale of compassion and redemption from an award-winning author whose writing Louise Erdrich has praised as “storytelling with a greatness of heart”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2026 Reading the West Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the drought-stricken summer of 1950, two Lakota boys, ages eleven and six, huddle in a boxcar hurtling through the prairie night as they run from a government agent sent to take the younger boy to an Indian boarding school. But what begins as a pursuit soon becomes a complex drama of intersecting lives as the boys make their way across the vast Dakota plains to the pipestone quarries of western Minnesota to replace their great-grandfather’s \u003cem\u003echannunpa\u003c\/em\u003e, or sacred pipe, that was broken by the agent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlive with a rich tapestry of characters the boys meet along their journey, this riveting story is at once an exploration of the hidden corners of the human heart and a moving study of the way the land shapes the people who live, love, dream, and die upon it. Sprawling yet intimate, \u003cem\u003eLone Dog Road \u003c\/em\u003eis destined to take its place in the grand tradition of great American road novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n","brand":"Kent Nerburn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48285322117371,"sku":"9781608689941","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e6ccb22d-4c8a-4bed-ac0c-b109979ae8d6.jpg?v=1781320349","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/lone-dog-road-9781608689941","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}