"For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as "the sandman," he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and ambitions and also preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, a mid-twenties Ojibwe, seeks solace in the slot machine's siren song. Here...

When thirteen-year-old Reanna's older sister Chelsea goes missing on her way home from school, each member of their Ojibwe family grieves her loss in a different way and struggles to find closure. Reanna's mother flees the reservation and its memories, and Reanna and her brother Theo go to live with their father. Reanna leans on her Ojibwe traditions for comfort, and feels Chelsea's presence all around her, especially when she's wearing Chelsea's...