The novel is told in first person perspective, narrated by a man name Joe Coutts who is reiterating his summer of 1988. During that summer, his mother Geraldine is raped and her perpetrator is a non-Indian. Because of many conflicting justice laws on the reservation, justice is not served the way it would be anywhere else in America. The narration of the story contributes to the meaningfulness of the subject at hand: rape on native American reservations. There are many instances in the novel where the narrator expresses the difficulty in getting justice for the crimes committed against
The novel is told in first person perspective, narrated by a man name Joe Coutts who is reiterating his summer of 1988. During that summer, his mother Geraldine is raped and her perpetrator is a non-Indian. Because of many conflicting justice laws on the reservation, justice is not served the way it would be anywhere else in America. The narration of the story contributes to the meaningfulness of the subject at hand: rape on native American reservations. There are many instances in the novel where the narrator expresses the difficulty in getting justice for the crimes committed against