Frybread Queen

A son’s violent death. And a husband’s, and a father’s. What better way to begin a tale of a fractured family told through three generations of women, particularly when the son, husband, and father are the same good-looking, troubled Navajo? It seems as if the bloody suicide of “the bad son” in his mother’s small reservation home is the only ingredient that could bind the four wounded women in Carolyn Dunn’s haunting drama—if only for a short time.