A troubled Chicago physician sets off on an urgent road trip across the Plains to reach his dying father's bedside. When he arrives on the impoverished Indian reservation he fled as a teen, he discovers his dwindling family sick, the neglected hospital facing closure, and the tribe locked in a culture war with outside energy developers. It's not his fight, he thinks. Until he encounters a fierce young Lakota gang member, a sharp-tongued grandmother, and a former love caught in the crossfire. Something Sacred Grows Here is a galloping ride through the rugged terrain of family, friendship, culture, and belonging, with a heart as wide open as the Great Plains (445 pages.) * * * All proceeds from this book are being donated to Re-Member, an independent non-profit organization on Pine Ridge Reservation serving members of the Oglala Lakota Nation through volunteer work, relationship building, and cultural exchange. Jeff Nixa is the author of The Lost Art of Heart Navigation: A Modern Shaman's Field Manual (Bear & Company, 2017.)
