melbatoast80 's review for:

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

4.0

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This is a well-spun story-- or, rather, series of small stories jumping back and forth in time to tell a larger story-- of a family. Sure, it's a werewolf story on the surface. Bubbling below, however, is the story of being othered, of imposed poverty, of a culture's rich history erased and distorted. While the author never specifically mentions the family's ethnicity (they're just werewolves, right?), it isn't a difficult stretch to imagine this a story of Indigenous people. Thoroughly interesting and well-thought-out; not scary, maybe a little gory, and dogs are killed (if you're sensitive to that).