The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
Thomas King, part Cherokee, part Greek, builds the plot in this novel through the story of the boy Tecumseh, who with his cousin Lum and his dog Vojnik usually passes through a reservation on summer days, between the towns of Truth and Shining Water.
After Children from the ZOO Station, the most honest and convincing first-hand account of addiction. Without moralizing, without justifying, the author describes the milieu of a drug addict. Hopefully he's still out of hell...