Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction

and settler state employees

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence

She grounds her story in a kind of sharply drawn reality that makes the standard tropes of dark futurism that much more unnerving

then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones

Perfidia land Night of the Living RezSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes