Meyer, Philipp

Kidnapped by the Comanche after his mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life until the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian.

Billy Poe and Isaac English, two friends in Buell, a struggling steel town in Pennsylvania, plan to escape to California, but when Isaac accidentally kills a transient, other complications arise that strain their friendship while Poe's mother, Grace, pines for the local sheriff.