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T.M.M.: So many people cry in the airport. I was just crying in the airport out of gratitude. I’d gone up in the air, and when I landed I found out my story was out and five minutes later that Erdrich had blurbed for the book. T.O.: I was traveling when I found this out. T.M.M.: Louise Erdrich has said about you, “Welcome to a brilliant and generous artist.” How did you feel hearing that from one of the best-known authors within our literary circle? T.O.: We fight against a monolithic version of ourselves as historical, traditional and “back to the land.” So to have modern voices struggling with different things was a powerful way to be thought of as human in the present tense and as complex as anybody else.

T.M.M.: I’ve heard you describe the work as a polyphonic novel.