Empire of wild : a novel
(Book)

"Originally published in Canada in 2019 by Random House Canada."--Title page verso.

Includes reading group guide.

A brilliant new Indigenous voice makes her American debut with this kinetic and imaginative novel inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the rogarou -- a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Native people's communities. Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways...until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan. One morning, Joan hears Victor's voice coming from inside a revival tent in a Walmart parking lot. The man she sees has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands. But this man doesn't recognize her at all. He insists his name is Reverend Eugene Wolff and that his mission is to spread the word of Jesus and to grow His flock. Yet Joan suspects there is something dark and terrifying within this charismatic preacher...something very dangerous. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly card shark who is one of the few among her community still steeped in the traditions of their people. With Ajean's know-how and the help of her twelve-year-old nephew, Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth. Her life, and those of everyone she loves, depends upon it. --,Provided by publisher.