Social realism regarding struggles of reservation-dwelling Native Americans in the North Central states of the US. Main character is an introspective and lovable person in a process of seeking pride and identity through tradtional and mystical means of gathering power. His high school friend, who is a Vietnam War Veteran, is exerting power as a highly principled social activist, using a modern rational materialist adversarial model of progress.桃红素来爱打听八卦，对三房一家的消息知之甚详，奇道，“可是虞品鸿在蜀地已经结亲了，对方是个普通村妇，这次还带回来了。”