My pledge this year is to not waste time on books I don‘t enjoy. Both of these have been on my tbr shelf forever…and #bookspin and #doublespin has cleared them. I bailed on them both.
@TheAromaofBooks
My pledge this year is to not waste time on books I don‘t enjoy. Both of these have been on my tbr shelf forever…and #bookspin and #doublespin has cleared them. I bailed on them both.
@TheAromaofBooks
This is a disturbing, at times funny, novel about a mentally ill Native American man who was raised by a white couple and knows nothing about his blood relatives, not even which tribe. He decides to start murdering random white men. The characters are believable and well drawn. Humor comes from the cringe worthy scenes with white characters who claim to be Indian and the racist, ridiculous things well meaning white people say to Indians.
This was an intense read! There‘s a serial killer in Seattle, targeting white men. There are several characters that are viable suspects. With each murder, racial tensions increase, often resulting in violence. #AmericanMulticulturalLitClass
This was a required read for my Native American literature class but it was so good I would have enjoyed reading it without having to! I‘d definitely recommend it, but I encourage you to buy it second hand or borrow it if you‘d like to read it so that Alexie does not profit from it, recent sexual assault allegations against him have surfaced and I would not feel comfortable supporting him in light of this.
There have been some pretty awesome kindle deals lately. Looking forward to checking this out. A new author for me!
To my shame I've only read Part-Time Indian. All of these are in my classroom library, where I try to stock diverse authors. #riotgrams #day9 #nativeandindigenousauthors #teachersoflitsy
I read this book for my culture class at my school at first I thought it was weird ( this book is rated r ) then in the end it all made sense and left an important message about racism.
Because I am making my way through all of Sherman Alexie's backlist!