From the multiple award-winning, bestselling author of All the Quiet Places, comes Brian Thomas Isaac's highly anticipated, haunting and tender return to the Okanagan Indian Reserve and two teenage brothers' struggle to become men in a world of racism and hardship.

Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier—either a runaway or dead by his own hand—sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pick and pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the Okanagan Indian Reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the vacation with his cousins, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they’ve built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family and the thrill of having his first girlfriend, Loretta, are almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women are left to carry the load, sometimes with kindness, but often with the bitterness, anger and ferocity of his own mother, who kicked Lewis’s lowlife father, Jimmy, to the curb long ago.

That won't be him, Lewis vows—but in a moment of weakness in the backseat of a car in a dancehall parking lot, he falls prey to the sexual advances of a predatory older woman, breaking Loretta's heart. Worse, that woman turns out to be his dad's girlfriend. Even worse, his dad is back in town and scheming to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then, at summer's end, Eddie comes back from the dead, driving a fancy car he’s bought with money he’s earned working in the oil patch. He’s come home to show off, but he’s also come home angry.

With so many traps laid around these brothers, often by men who are supposed to love them, but who can’t love anything because of their own disrupted, damaged lives, will Lewis and Eddie find a path to a different future?