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Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and also, devastatingly, from within. When her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, Betty has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters in her rural town of Breathed, Ohio.

When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the heatwave-scorched town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody expects that he will turn up, especially as a tattered 13-year-old boy. Fielding, the son of Autopsy, brings the boy home, and he is welcomed into the family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal, the townsfolk begin to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be....

"Ce livre est à la fois une danse, un chant et un éclat de lune, mais par-dessus tout, l'histoire qu'il raconte est, et restera à jamais, celle de la Petite Indienne." La Petite Indienne, c'est Betty Carpenter, née dans une baignoire, sixième de huit enfants. Sa famille vit en marge de la société car, si sa mère est blanche, son père est cherokee. Lorsque les Carpenter s'installent dans la petite ville de Breathed, après des années d'errance, le paysage luxuriant de l'Ohio semble leur apporter la paix.