The Bird Is Gone

A lost pipe holds the power to rewrite a nation.

Cleverly blending alternate history, mystery, and indigenous resurgence, Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone unfolds in a transformed Great Plains where a visionary conservation act has made the land truly "Indian again." Fourteen years later, a motley crew led by LP Deal converges in a bowling alley within Indian Territories, on a quest for a forgotten treaty pipe--sealed in a locker and flushed into oblivion--that could return all of America to Indigenous hands. Surreal, suspenseful, and richly original, this manifesto of resistance challenges readers to reconsider power, history, and the stakes of reclaiming a stolen world.