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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

© 2014, Text by Shawn Lawrence Otto

Cover art is in the public domain.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

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Published 2014 by Milkweed Editions

Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

Cover photo/illustration is in the public domain.

Author photo by Jeff Johnson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Otto, Shawn Lawrence.

Sins of our fathers / Shawn Lawrence Otto.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-57131-912-8

Summary: “After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he’s trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing”-- Provided by publisher.

1. Banks and banking--Fiction. 2. Extortion--Fiction. 3. Whites--Relations with Indians--Fiction. 4. Compulsive gamblers--Fiction. 5. Self-realization--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3615.T95S56 2014

813’.6—dc23

2014024589

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