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Indian Burial Ground
by Nick Medina
Told in alternating POV present and past, this is the story of buried secrets on a reservation trailer park and horrors that can invade a tight-knit community.
In the present, Uncle Louie has returned to his (Louisiana) Takoda reservation just as his beloved niece's boyfriend is found dead.
In the past, Louie is given charge of two toddlers for the summer just as mysterious disappearances and strange happenings at wakes occur. A trailer-bound neighbor watches it all but Louie feels the presence of something more, something evil watching.
And woven in an around it are the grief, misery, and complicated presence of alcohol, family neglect, and how even Casino windfalls can't save a family.
This is at times, trippy, and flows in fits and starts, with dream-like sequences presented as reality, so its more like magical realism in some ways, but definitely trending towards horror-- horror in the supernatural and horror in the mundane.
Louie and Noemi are complicated, unsafe people who definitely bear the marks of a broken family and also guilt for harming others, but in the end, we always root for them. Definitely will read more by this author.
In the present, Uncle Louie has returned to his (Louisiana) Takoda reservation just as his beloved niece's boyfriend is found dead.
In the past, Louie is given charge of two toddlers for the summer just as mysterious disappearances and strange happenings at wakes occur. A trailer-bound neighbor watches it all but Louie feels the presence of something more, something evil watching.
And woven in an around it are the grief, misery, and complicated presence of alcohol, family neglect, and how even Casino windfalls can't save a family.
This is at times, trippy, and flows in fits and starts, with dream-like sequences presented as reality, so its more like magical realism in some ways, but definitely trending towards horror-- horror in the supernatural and horror in the mundane.
Louie and Noemi are complicated, unsafe people who definitely bear the marks of a broken family and also guilt for harming others, but in the end, we always root for them. Definitely will read more by this author.