Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.

Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnaabe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve's chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger's intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

"If the great Ojibway trickster Nanabush wrote fiction, I imagine he'd write just like Drew Hayden Taylor. You will find much sadness just below the laughs, and sly humor masked by sorrow. A wisdom exists in these pages that only comes from someone who writes from his heart." — Joseph Boyden