The Wolf at Twilight, Kent Nerburn
The Wolf at Twilight, Kent Nerburn
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The Wolf at Twilight
An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows

Author: Kent Nerburn

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/18/2020


Synopsis

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.

In this fictionalized account of actual events, Nerburn brings the land of the northern High Plains alive and reveals the Native American way of teaching and learning with a depth that few outsiders have ever captured.

About Kent Nerburn

A two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Kent Nerburn is the author of numerous books on spirituality and Native themes, including Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce (featured on the History Channel), Neither Wolf nor Dog, and Voices in the Stones. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif on November 25, 2021

This novel explores the experience of being Lakota. The book’s narrative is a composite of conversations with an Indian elder Dan and his friends who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The story is told in the first person voice of the author and thus carries the tone of a memoir. The first p......more

Goodreads review by Robin on June 08, 2015

A compelling follow up to Neither Wolf, Nor Dog, this second installment in the trilogy of Nerburn's encounters with the Lakota elder the reader only ever knows as "Dan" is a more intensely personal journey --- into Dan's history with the Residential School system, and the loss of his sister, Yell......more

Goodreads review by Melle on March 23, 2014

I have been resistant to reading any of Kent Nerburn's works because of my own experiences as an outsider with an insider's perspective into the lives and community of Turtle Island's original people. In fact, the only reason I picked up this book was because I needed to read it for a book group thr......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on February 04, 2010

I didn't know this was a sequel. It reads well on its own, but was so good I want to read the first book. There were some comments about religion, comparing all to fingers on the same hand of the creator, that were very moving and insightful.......more

Goodreads review by Lenore on June 21, 2010

A most profound story about Native American treatment by whites and the relationship over the years. Very well written and educational. If only all whites would read this book!......more