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Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice.

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After being transported to a vivid, foreboding past by Eddie Chuculate’s atmospheric short story “Galveston Bay, 1826,” I was eager to get a hold of the author’s new nonfiction account of his own coming of age in Oklahoma and the path he took to journalism and storytelling.

Mainly written at an easy, conversational pace, This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir occasionally slips into exquisite lyricism. In all, it is a potent pleasure.

From Luke's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

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