"Navajo Code Talkers" tells the story of the special group

instructions to the deceased

amid the existential terror of colonization―and Billy-Ray Belcourt’s nuanced and attentive rendering of it―is the most revolutionary of acts

and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times)

In an introduction written for this anthology

After the Fire & The Particulars literary criticism "Navajo Code Talkers" tells theFrom the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what were capable of when pushed to our breaking point. Set in the aftermath of the disaster that nearly destroyed Fort McMurray in 2016, After the Fire centres around two couples whose lives have been deeply affected by the ruin. Sisters Laura and Carmell have been channelling their devastation after the disaster into their daughters hockey