A stunning and often difficult read that simultaneously makes you despair of (white) humanity as a whole, while admiring individual instances. I read Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues just prior to this, which is pretty much filled with disdain for white people. I understood that in theory, but now I have a deeper appreciation of the specifics. Apart from the inherent inhumanity of the main perpetrator (no spoilers!) the endemic racism and paternalism that both treated the Osage people as children while lining up to feed at the cash trough will make you cringe.