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Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones

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A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

Five years after the events of The Only Good Indians, survivor Nathan Yellow Tail joins three older Blackfeet tribal members on a mission to recover the remains of a Blackfeet boy who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and bring him home.

Their journey in a battered camper van turns dangerous when something terrible comes back with the bones.

Off the Reservation blends horror and suspense with historical reckoning, drawing on the legacy of Native boarding schools and the work of repatriation.

Stephen Graham Jones returns to the Blackfeet reservation setting of his earlier novels The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and this book follows up the 2020 novel.

It suits readers who like horror with emotional and historical weight, told as a road trip with an ensemble cast.

A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

Five years after the events of The Only Good Indians, survivor Nathan Yellow Tail joins three older Blackfeet tribal members on a mission to recover the remains of a Blackfeet boy who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and bring him home.

Their journey in a battered camper van turns dangerous when something terrible comes back with the bones.

Off the Reservation blends horror and suspense with historical reckoning, drawing on the legacy of Native boarding schools and the work of repatriation.

Stephen Graham Jones returns to the Blackfeet reservation setting of his earlier novels The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and this book follows up the 2020 novel.

It suits readers who like horror with emotional and historical weight, told as a road trip with an ensemble cast.

  • Publisher: S&S/Saga Press

    Title: Off the Reservation

    Author: Stephen Graham Jones

    On Sale Date: October 13, 2026

    ISBN 13: 978-1-6682-2512-7

    ISBN 10: 1668225123

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

    BISAC: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense; Fiction / Horror

    Page Count: 416

  • Stephen Graham Jones is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. His honors include NEA fellowships and the Ray Bradbury Award, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

  • What readers can expect:

    • A mission to recover and repatriate the remains of a Blackfeet boy who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School drives the story.

    • Nathan Yellow Tail, a survivor from The Only Good Indians, travels with three older Blackfeet tribal members five years after that novel's events.

    • The publisher places it in suspense and horror, with historical reckoning and survival among its themes.

    • The hardcover runs 416 pages from Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

This book is for you if

  • You read The Only Good Indians and want to know what happened to Nathan Yellow Tail next.

  • You're interested in fiction that engages with Native boarding school history and the repatriation of remains.

  • You enjoy horror told as a road trip in a dilapidated camper van.

  • You appreciate Blackfeet-centered storytelling from an author with Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards behind him.

  • You like an ensemble cast, here a young survivor traveling with three older tribal members.

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