Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

published in The New Yorker
In this personal essay, HolyWhiteMountain writes of his adolescence in northwestern Montana. He remembers the sound of rock "having crossed the vast Northern plans night" to his radio, which taught him "the rhythm and arc and structure of narrative."
1240 days ago

published in The New Yorker
The narrator meets "his love," Allie, while off at the university. He's had plenty of flings with girls in the past, but Allie is the first girl his Mother and Grandmother would be proud of. That they are both Native American brings them together at first, but as they both grow more and more into university life, their radically different personalities push them apart.
1308 days ago