Sins of Our Fathers: A Novel
Oct 2014 · Milkweed Editions
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "wonderfully vivid" crime novel about race, money, and the American Dream ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A banker in small-town Minnesota, J.W. has been caught embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction. He's on the verge of losing everything when his boss offers him a scoundrel's path to redemption: sabotage a competing, Native banker named Johnny Eagle. A single father, Eagle recently returned to the reservation, leaving a high-powered job in the hope of simultaneously empowering his community and saving his troubled son.
When J.W. moves onto the reservation and begins to work his way close to Eagle, hundreds of years of racial animosities rise to the surface, inexorably driving the characters toward a Shakespearean and shattering conclusion, in this elegant, page-turning novel by the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog.
"A rousing and satisfying climax. Otto's wonderfully vivid debut narrative is reminiscent of well-known crime novelist William Kent Krueger."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Captivating from the first page."— The Missourian
A banker in small-town Minnesota, J.W. has been caught embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction. He's on the verge of losing everything when his boss offers him a scoundrel's path to redemption: sabotage a competing, Native banker named Johnny Eagle. A single father, Eagle recently returned to the reservation, leaving a high-powered job in the hope of simultaneously empowering his community and saving his troubled son.
When J.W. moves onto the reservation and begins to work his way close to Eagle, hundreds of years of racial animosities rise to the surface, inexorably driving the characters toward a Shakespearean and shattering conclusion, in this elegant, page-turning novel by the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog.
"A rousing and satisfying climax. Otto's wonderfully vivid debut narrative is reminiscent of well-known crime novelist William Kent Krueger."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Captivating from the first page."— The Missourian
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "wonderfully vivid" crime novel about race, money, and the American Dream ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A banker in small-town Minnesota, J.W. has been caught embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction. He's on the verge of losing everyth...
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About the author
Shawn Lawrence Otto is the writer and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated film, House of Sand and Fog. He writes for television’s top studios and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Science, and Salon, among other publications. He lives in Marine on Saint Croix, MN.
Shawn Lawrence Otto is the writer and co-producer of the Oscar-nominated film, House of Sand and Fog. He writes for television’s top studios and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Science, and Salon, among other publications. He lives in Marine on Saint Croix, MN.
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