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nicomarlyse's review against another edition
It feels unfair of me to give this a rating because I am reading it about 5 years after its publication, and a fair portion of this is very of it’s time political satire. I feel like I would have enjoyed the political satire bits had I read this when certain events were of social relevance; I just don’t find pussy hat satire funny in 2024. Personally!
It took me a bit of effort to get into this at first. The middle was incredible and I read for a few hours straight. I also had to expend a bit of effort to get through the section or so.
Midge’s more personal pieces were incredible. “The Siam Sequences” grabbed me hard and held me tight; I LOVED it. Other pieces I loved include:
Ghoul, Interrupted
Fertility Rites
Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and Under Certain Conditions)
Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series
Midge is hilarious! The lack of celebrated Indigenous humor writers/comedians in America became HUGELY apparent to me when reading Bury My Heart. Aside from Midge, I don’t think I could name you a single one. Which is so dismal. When we seek to center Indigenous stories, to amplify voices from the margins, we center stories of pain far more often than we center stories of laughter, of humor. This is so limiting. Midge knows this and she knows the power of laughter and she came right for us all with wit.
What I enjoyed, I REALLY enjoyed. I would probably have rated this 4 or 5 stars if I had read it in 2018, but since I read it years later I am leaving it unrated. Because literally I think that was the only reason I didn’t love this as much as I expected to love it.
It took me a bit of effort to get into this at first. The middle was incredible and I read for a few hours straight. I also had to expend a bit of effort to get through the section or so.
Midge’s more personal pieces were incredible. “The Siam Sequences” grabbed me hard and held me tight; I LOVED it. Other pieces I loved include:
Ghoul, Interrupted
Fertility Rites
Champion Our Native Sisters! (but Only Selectively and Under Certain Conditions)
Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series
Midge is hilarious! The lack of celebrated Indigenous humor writers/comedians in America became HUGELY apparent to me when reading Bury My Heart. Aside from Midge, I don’t think I could name you a single one. Which is so dismal. When we seek to center Indigenous stories, to amplify voices from the margins, we center stories of pain far more often than we center stories of laughter, of humor. This is so limiting. Midge knows this and she knows the power of laughter and she came right for us all with wit.
What I enjoyed, I REALLY enjoyed. I would probably have rated this 4 or 5 stars if I had read it in 2018, but since I read it years later I am leaving it unrated. Because literally I think that was the only reason I didn’t love this as much as I expected to love it.
beebeewin's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
3.75
First before I get into my deeper review, this book is not meant to be an audiobook. It was hard to really understand where one short story begins and where another ends. I think the narrator was good but I think the way it was constructed plus how she read it made it really so there was no real pause or break to denote changes. That definitely affects my review as I just wouldn't read it in this format.
Despite that I think Tiffany Midge wrote a lot of funny stories! It was really cool to see the political statements getting told in a way that made me chuckle and guffaw. I will say certain stories were funnier than others which made for some occasionally slow moments in the collection. I think I might need to re-read this to truly absorb everything she wrote about. I would recommend the physical version of this short story collection for anyone looking for just a funny and interesting quick read! My favorites were the thrift store man and Rachel Dolezal!
Despite that I think Tiffany Midge wrote a lot of funny stories! It was really cool to see the political statements getting told in a way that made me chuckle and guffaw. I will say certain stories were funnier than others which made for some occasionally slow moments in the collection. I think I might need to re-read this to truly absorb everything she wrote about. I would recommend the physical version of this short story collection for anyone looking for just a funny and interesting quick read! My favorites were the thrift store man and Rachel Dolezal!
cmartin629's review against another edition
1.0
Even mentioning Sedaris in the quip for the book is an insult. This is a disjointed set of angry memoirs that is preachy to say the least. I suffered through it just for a reading challenge, but I would have easily stopped reading it after the first quarter of the book. Disappointed because it had such hope for a Native American voice, but it turned into the stereotype the author even wrote about that they wanted ignored - angry and distrusting.
mwaskom's review against another edition
funny
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
Some of this was so laugh out loud funny, some of it was thought provoking, but a lot of it was specific 2016 references and critique that I wish was deeper and more thought out. It reads a little outdated.