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The magnificent Pulitzer prize winning book of the stranger in his native landA small Native American, Abel has come home from the foreign war to locate herself trapped between two sides. The very first is the planet of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the times of year, the severe beauty of the property, and the old customs and rituals of his people. However the other-world -- contemporary, commercial America -- draws at Abel, challenging his devotion, declaring his spirit, goading him right into a harmful, addictive pattern of dislike and dissipation. And the child, split in two, descends into hell.