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A review by thorwantsanotherletter
Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones
3.0
*Pick for the month of July's OMG She's Indigenous book club
I...am so conflicted.
I found this at my library in 2019 hoping to read it for my first time host of IndigAThon. Sadly, I didn't get to it, so I put it on my wishlist. One of my many mamas bought it for me, and it sat on my shelf until I mentioned this to Autumn and we chose it.
First off...there's so much wrong with this movie-to-book adaptation. I feel like the movie and the book both shit on Shane ridiculously. Tara...oh god, the most annoying girlfriend character in the history of annoying. I hated how in the movie she's painted as this victim, when in reality, she's a rapist and mentally abusive to Shane. Almost everyone shits on Shane, even David, whos's supposed to be his boyfriend. But everyone is trying to keep him contained to the reserve.
Honestly there's so much wrong with it that I can't even write it all.
The only thing that satisfied me with this was the way grief is explained in Native terms, and the way Shane feels it vs his mother. The house gets dirty, the roof starts leaking a little harder, until the house can't take it anymore.
I...am so conflicted.
I found this at my library in 2019 hoping to read it for my first time host of IndigAThon. Sadly, I didn't get to it, so I put it on my wishlist. One of my many mamas bought it for me, and it sat on my shelf until I mentioned this to Autumn and we chose it.
First off...there's so much wrong with this movie-to-book adaptation. I feel like the movie and the book both shit on Shane ridiculously. Tara...oh god, the most annoying girlfriend character in the history of annoying. I hated how in the movie she's painted as this victim, when in reality, she's a rapist and mentally abusive to Shane. Almost everyone shits on Shane, even David, whos's supposed to be his boyfriend. But everyone is trying to keep him contained to the reserve.
Honestly there's so much wrong with it that I can't even write it all.
The only thing that satisfied me with this was the way grief is explained in Native terms, and the way Shane feels it vs his mother. The house gets dirty, the roof starts leaking a little harder, until the house can't take it anymore.