Endorsements
“Lone Dog Road, Kent Nerburn’s long-awaited literary return, is a revelation. It takes us on a journey through a barely known world where cultures rub against each other and the old knowledge of the first Americans struggles to find voice in a world that has forgotten it exists. Nerburn has lived in this world between cultures. He has traveled its roads and knows its people, and his characters breathe with the life of these travels. Join him on this journey to a world between worlds. It is a journey that asks big questions for which there are no easy answers, and a glimpse into the very heart of the American experience.”
“Great stories are born in the heart and from there make their way into the world. Lone Dog Road is a great story deeply rooted in the human heart. Using the vast canvas of the Great Plains, Kent Nerburn paints with his words the hardscrabble lives of the people who by choice or by chance call that place home. The result is breathtaking in its beauty and heartwarming in its humanity. Nerburn is a storyteller to be celebrated, and Lone Dog Road is a story to be treasured.”
“Lone Dog Road is swift, compassionate, and instantly credible. Everyone in its pages is searching for home — the young brothers fleeing federal pursuit, their wise and weathered great-grandfather, the traveling gospel singer, and so many others. Kent Nerburn writes like a trusted friend in this sturdy outstretched hand of a novel — grab it and hang on.”
“Lone Dog Road is one of those special novels that opens a door into another reality. Though Kent Nerburn is not Native, he has the magic needed to portray reservation life in the shadows of South Dakota’s Black Hills. Lone Dog Road is poignant, heartfelt, and educational. Read it and learn.”
“Kent Nerburn is one of those rare individuals who has been invited to see over the fence into another culture. A lifetime of listening quietly to Native Americans of many nations has invested his work with a wisdom that has won him the admiration of Native American readers and cultural leaders and allowed him to create a nuanced and poetic account of being ‘Indian’ in a white man’s world. He writes with grace, and he manages to tell sad stories with a deep affirmation. The integrity of Nerburn’s heart and the careful insights of his prose are abundant on every page of this remarkable novel of trial and redemption.”
