A former president, who lives in Florida, loses a woman supporter to a somewhat funny death by python.

Story told through the eyes of teenage boy living on Reservation.
Mother is raped, and the story of the attack and the person who committed the crime unfolds in a series of other stories. The son seeks justice.

If you like John Irving novels, you should enjoy this one. To paraphrase that old saying: Sane families are all alike but every crazy family is crazy in its own way.