First published 2025
Good Stab walks the fields of the Blackfeet Nation in early Montana, searching for those who killed his people. Two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet bodies lie frozen in the snow, victims of a massacre that history wants to forget. A century later, construction workers find a diary hidden inside a wall. The journal belongs to a Lutheran pastor who wrote down Good Stab's confessions in 1912. Page by page, the diary reveals how Good Stab lived far longer than any man should, driven by a need for justice that spans decades. Through recorded interviews, Good Stab tells his story of tracking down those responsible for the slaughter. His hunt takes him across the raw landscape of a territory becoming a state, where violence shapes the land as much as weather. This is a story about memory and revenge, about what happens when the dead demand payment from the living.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: memory, revenge
Setting: Blackfeet Nation, Montana
Period: 1912, Early 20th Century
448 pages · Hardcover · S&S/Saga Press
Content warnings: violence