Big Chief
A Novel
There There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.
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 re-election, their tenuous grip on power is threatened by a nationally known activist and politician, Gloria Hawkins, and her young aide, Layla Beck, none other than Mack’s estranged sister and Mitch’s former love. In their struggle for control over Passage Rouge, the campaigns resort…
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April 8, 2025JON HICKEY is a former Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and earned his MFA from Cornell University. His short fiction has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast Online, Virginia Quarterly Review, Meridian, and The Madison Review, among other journals and prizes. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Sewanee Writers Conference. He is an enrolled member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons. Big Chief is his debut novel.
