Snippet from Togwotee Passage chapter seven

Snippet from Togwotee Passage chapter seven:

At home a few days later, Calan is working up a sweat in the yard, cutting the grass with a dull push reel mower, trying not to think about his anger and heaped on shame. He's been feeling so ashamed that he's avoided their neighbor Stan's attempts to talk.

Pausing to wipe the perspiration dripping into his eyes, Calan is surprised when his friend Derek pulls up to the house. Momentarily happy and confused he quips, "How'd you get off the res?"

"I'm a shadow in the night. Seriously though, I hear you're going through a rough patch."

"Well, I gotta admit I'm sorely discouraged with the townie lot an' their weaselly ways, not to mention feelin' damn stupid. Wish I could just find a job to help mom get by, but she won't hear of it."

"No disagreement from me about the townie lot. A sign in the window of a diner on the main drag said, 'No dogs, No Injuns.' . . . "