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literacy4life's review against another edition
5.0
Gut-wrenching. Raw and poignant. Graphic. I want to burn it and never have to think of it again, but, at the same time, I need to share it with everyone and can’t tear my eyes away from a single second.
oneeye's review against another edition
5.0
This is a complex, well written novel. Set in the years following the termination period of 1950s American Indian policy, when thousands of Native Americans left reservations in northern Minnesota to settle along Minneapolis's Franklin Ave. Treuer explores the struggle to create new lives in the city and the ongoing connection his protagonists have to their home "up north."
prpltrtl946's review
5.0
Indigenous Family trauma
This is a hard book, but these characters are mostly up to it. The spotlight, for me, was the trickery of the US government inducing the Indigenous peoples away from their homes, and the dominoes fall.
I had the immense pleasure of hearing the Author talk last night via the Well-Read Native Book Club. I wondered why he didn’t give translations for the Ojibwa spoken in the story. His response was the characters are remembering special moments that were spoken in their native language. Also there are Many examples of authors not supplying translations, he’s not alone.
Why Doesn’t google translate offer Ojibwe for Translation?! It’s a North American Language and has been since Way Before “Americans” got here!
This is a hard book, but these characters are mostly up to it. The spotlight, for me, was the trickery of the US government inducing the Indigenous peoples away from their homes, and the dominoes fall.
I had the immense pleasure of hearing the Author talk last night via the Well-Read Native Book Club. I wondered why he didn’t give translations for the Ojibwa spoken in the story. His response was the characters are remembering special moments that were spoken in their native language. Also there are Many examples of authors not supplying translations, he’s not alone.
Why Doesn’t google translate offer Ojibwe for Translation?! It’s a North American Language and has been since Way Before “Americans” got here!
kinglawalsalami's review against another edition
5.0
David Treuer held my attention with poetry and words from all corners of vocabulary. His description of Minneapolis will serve as an outdated roadmap when I visit. A beautiful book.
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