When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. The landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by violence and addiction. Three years later, Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher "KC" Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, and in this Pulitzer Prize finalist, her relentless quest to find him becomes her own pursuit of redemption.