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lexinspace's review against another edition
started reading this Sept 1 2022 and just haven't kept up with it, and i want to clear out my currently reading section-- definitely still want to read, it's just not time yet!
livmacpherson's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide and Sexual assault
birdsandships's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
shhherald's review against another edition
5.0
This book is a story about stories about stories all the way down. Thomas King's writing incorporates Indigenous oral storytelling with conventional Western narrative styles and seamlessly blends the personal and political. The result is honest and moving and warm.
mamagames's review against another edition
4.0
A good windy afternoon's read in the fourth week of November. Thomas King weaves together important insights about language and storytelling with realities and complexities of Native past and present in North America. Each chapter ends with a reminder that you can't, "say in the years to come that you would have lived differently if only you had heard this story. You've heard it now.". There's so much here to continue to process.
p.112 - "The magic of Native literature - as with other literatures - is not in the themes of the stories - identity, isolation, loss, ceremony, community, maturation, home - it is in the way meaning is refracted by cosmology, the way understanding is shaped by cultural paradigms."
p.112 - "The magic of Native literature - as with other literatures - is not in the themes of the stories - identity, isolation, loss, ceremony, community, maturation, home - it is in the way meaning is refracted by cosmology, the way understanding is shaped by cultural paradigms."