A review by mamagames
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King

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."