Jon Hickey, author of BIG CHIEF- an in-person Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Midwestern author Jon Hickey, who visits with his debut novel, Big Chief.

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Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe’s Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the eve of Mack’s reelection, their tenuous grip on power is threatened. In their struggle for control over Passage Rouge, the campaigns resort to bare-knuckle political gamesmanship, testing the limits of how far they will go—and what they will sacrifice—to win it all.

Jon Hickey earned his MFA at Cornell University, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and is an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. His short fiction has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast Online, and Virginia Quarterly Review among others.

Event Venue

Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States