Fathers and Crows by William Vollman
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Easily as beautiful as the Ice Shirt (to which it is a loose sequel) and as fulsome, but very, very long. But that hardly captures the joy of it and the misery. It's a long story of the French settlement of the new world, with particular focus on Samuel Champlain, and the Jesuits who sought to Christianize the Wendat (which we call Huron, though I understand that to be a slur).
The book engages deeply with primary sources (the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuit Relations, etc.) and seldom has a fiction book made me wish to read so many additional non-fiction books to fill in my ignorance. Vollman is clearly careful in his engagement and personally consulted various scholars on Native cultures, but his book incorporates some elements that I had thought to be historical myths (ritual cannibalism among the Iroquois and Wendat, scalping prior to the arrival of the French, etc.). So I'll probably wind up reading a biography of Champlain, a book on the Wendat, and certainly the Spiritual Exercises, to satisfy my curiosity about the truth of his treatment.
On the whole I would say the book's length is its biggest fault, not for lack of subject matter, but simply because the beauty, pathos, and stylistic pyrotechnics are less condensed and less powerful. I would heartily recommend the book for patient lovers of literary fiction, history, and mysticism.