A review by tjgreads
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

2.0

I get it, N. Scott Momaday’s novels led Native American literature into the mainstream, and I’m glad that happened and that HOUSE MADE OF DAWN drew attention to that culture by winning the Pulitzer. But, this is hardly a novel. It’s more like a random, distorted collection of poems, songs, observations and stories, loosely held together by the character arc of Abel - a young Native American WWII veteran who drinks too much and doesn’t fit in anywhere, and ends up killing someone and then gets himself so badly beaten up he almost dies. Meh. Minimal plot, flat characters. Some beautiful language, but not into it.
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Format: NYPL e-book, via Libby/Kindle
Read for:
✅ 2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge Prompt 3A “An ‘own voices’ book.”