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The Pipelayer
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
Publisher: Low Fiction
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One Friday in August: 2024. Gaston The NDN Pipelayer Johnson, is a millennial descendant of the Fox Tribe in Te Ma, Iowa. Not enrolled yet... He works for Price Plumbing: a full-service contractor for indoor & outdoor plumbing. He is the dirty guy in the trench, risking life & limb to install storm, sewer, & water main pipes all over the state.
He also has a huge drinking problem; such is the usual case for a construction worker of his ilk. But he accepts a job over a drink-or-five with his strange new boss, Mike Pankow, a Pipelayer lifer, that takes him back to the Fox Tribal Settlement, a place where Gaston never belonged.
On that fateful dig, under the oppressive August heat, he discovers something else...Someone.
His life is changed forever, and that's just the beginning of the story, as that Someone has a story of her own to tell that has affected an entire community for 35 years.
Enter: One Friday in May: 1989. Have you heard about M?
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