Larry Watson's other novels include In A Dark Time (1980), White Crosses (1997), Laura (2000), Orchard (2003), Sundown, Yellow Moon (2007), American Boy (2011), Let Him Go (2013), and, most recently, As Good as Gone (2016). His short story collection Justice, published in 1994, is a prequel to Montana, 1948.
For fiction by American Indian authors with Native protagonists, consider work by acclaimed author Sherman Alexie, such as his short story collection Ten Little Indians (2003), and novels the Reservation Blues (1995) and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007, with illustrations by Ellen Forney). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is especially relevant to...