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Bezig met laden... Night of the Living Rez (origineel 2022; editie 2022)door Morgan Talty (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkNight of the Living Rez: Stories door Morgan Talty (2022)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I'm not sure what to think about this one. Certainly I didn't know what I was getting into, it sounds like a horror novel but it's vignettes on trauma. I didn't realize till over half way through that this wasn't a novel though, so that made me scratch my head. ( ) Twelve interconnected stories set on the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation give episodic glimpses into the childhood and young adulthood of the central character, David, along with his family and friends. A small and sparsely populated area, Indian Island is literally and figuratively isolated, by rivers and poverty and social stagnation. The horror reference of the titular story indeed refers to this latter aspect: I passed by a large boulder - rolled and placed back when the reservation was a burial ground. Couldn’t tell that to anyone, though, because people talked Pet Sematary. But it was true - this reservation was for the dead. With not much happening, substance abuse is the main pastime of most of these characters. David and his best friend Fellis get their daily methadone treatments, smoke, and drink. David’s older sister Paige uses heroin. His mom and stepfather drink heavily. These dependencies are treated matter of fact; the characters are treated with humanity. A frayed but still intact connection to their tribe’s history and identity provides a measure of meaning and creative outlet for the characters. Penobscot mythology and spiritual belief weave through the stories, and David’s stepfather is an occasional medicine man who tries to provide some protection for the family through the ceremonial and ritualistic methods he knows. Whether they do much good outside of providing some sense of purpose is pretty hard to see, of course, and ultimately they can’t save his own body from his pain and addiction. Coming with cover blurbs from Brandon Hobson and Tommy Orange, among others, this collection introduces a promising young writer from the Native American community. Powerful collection of short stories spanning the early life of David, a native American living in current times in a reservation in Maine. David and his friends are aimless; they spend their time drinking and smoking and escaping their sad realities. There's mental illness, neglect, poverty and also love. I ached for him. I've read a lot of indigenous writers, some have hit, some have missed. This unfortunately felt like more of a miss. I didn't take a lot from it and although it's a collection of short stories, they're all about the same characters. That's not bad, but the jump around in times for those characters made it hard to follow what was going on sometimes and took me out of the story. The stories started to feel like there was little variation between each piece, not enough to really make me feel something new with each switch. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family's unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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