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Hard Margins by Edward J. Delaney
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9781885586575
Published:
28 Aug 2025
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
336 pages
Dimensions:
210x146mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
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"1958. A horrific road death on the edge of a small reservation in central Wyoming sets into motion years of pent-up recrimination by the people of nearby Suncreek. Its sheriff threatens to use the event to make an example of the teenage driver, Nelson Antelope. Agent Tim Hubbard of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a Korean War vet who came here as a retreat from harder realities, decides to thwart that effort. Hubbard begins the difficult search for Nelson Antelope but can only get there through understanding the century of friction that has boiled in this remote and arid place. The white residents of Suncreek deeply resent the Towhoc tribe's windfall - oil deposits that have turned the desolate reservation into something of sudden value. But the tribe struggles with its newfound money, which has brought them a modicum of wealth for which they have been swindled and abused. Hubbard journeys deep into a reservation he has never truly known
"[Delaney] cares about details and understands their importance to the larger themes of loss, desperation, and betrayed loyalties. His characters are . . . fully realized, familiar people, whose failures are heartbreakingly authentic." -The Boston Globe
A Bureau of Indian Affairs agent in a remote Wyoming reservation reckons with the clash of cultures, his own failings, and the attempted destruction of a people.
Five teenagers take a joyride through the barren landscape of Wyoming's small Towuk Indian Reservation. Only four survive.
It's 1958, and the horrific accident cracks open a heart of darkness tainted by years of betrayal and anger. Danny Hubbard, a Korean War vet and troubled agent from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, races to find the driver before the sheriff of nearby Suncreek can use the accident to bring a century-old tension to a violent head.
The nomadic Towuk once lived on horseback and without property lines. That changed forcibly in the 1870s, as recorded in a series of dusty reports over which Hubbard pores. Now petroleum found on the reservation has brought in just enough money to change the Towuks' lives a little, but with the windfall comes dangerous resentment from the white residents of Suncreek. As the margin between reservation and town grows more rigid by the day, Hubbard witnesses both the last vestiges of the Towuk's way of life and the tribe's likely future.
Book II looks back almost a century to Agent Dorrance, author of the reports in Hubbard's office. A protégé of Horace Greeley and his Utopianism, Dorrance tries to persuade, then to force, the roaming tribe to give up their horses and settle down to farming-saving their lives at the expense of their culture.
Morally complex and as relevant to today's issues of freedom and land occupation as ever, Hard Margins is about captive people and their desire to escape their fates, and the captors who desire equally to escape theirs.
About the Author: Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker, and educator whose previous works of fiction include The Acrobat, The Big Impossible, Follow the Sun, and Broken Irish, published by Turtle Point Press. He is the recipient of a PEN/New England Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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