Oh man, Mindor is so good! One of my absolute favorite SW novels.

Without going into spoiler territory too much, there’s a framing device that means you theoretically could work it into canon if you wanted to. For a slightly more spoilery explanation as to how that can be (you don’t really understand that this is the case until the end of the book, but I still consider it a fairly light spoiler):

It’s told by an unreliable narrator.

But yeah, I can never recommend Mindor enough.