Herons Poynte

Inspired by the stories of Grandfather Two Tongues, a young Indian man named David Waterfield leaves his small village in the Oklahoma panhandle and returns to the Chesapeake in search of the stolen lands of his ancestors. His only clues to their whereabouts are the image of a great tree woven into a belt of shell beads, a marsh full of bullet-riddled bog mummies, and a mysterious phonetic parchment written by a Jesuit priest in the lost language of his Choptank ancestors.

Eventually, David...