{"product_id":"9781608689941","title":"Lone Dog Road: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2026 Reading the West Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \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 \u003ci\u003echannunpa\u003c\/i\u003e, or sacred pipe, that was broken by the agent.\u003c\/p\u003e \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, \u003ci\u003eLone Dog Road \u003c\/i\u003eis destined to take its place in the grand tradition of great American road novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New World Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43336397979709,"sku":"9781608689941","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781608689941_p0.jpg?v=1783777534","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781608689941","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}