Winner of the PEN Jean Stein grant Deborah Jackson Taffa's WHISKEY TENDER, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between being raised to strive toward the American Dream while also coming into an understanding of how the narratives of her Kwatsaan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo heritages have been excluded from the central mythologies of America.