Navajo Author Bojan Louis
Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life, by an American Book Award winner An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician's plan to take his young nephew on a hike in the mountains, as a break from the motel room where they live, goes awry thanks to an untrustworthy new coworker. A night custodian makes the mistake of revealing too much about his work at a medical research facility to a girl who shares his passion for death metal. A relapsing addict struggles to square his desire for a white woman he meets in a writing class with family expectations and traditions. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. In his gritty and searching fiction debut, Bojan Louis draws empathetic portraits of day laborers, metalheads, motel managers, aspiring writ...
This is an incredible book on the off chance that you need to find out about Native Americans and their history since Wounded Knee in 1890. A lot of it is first person, when the author talks with an assortment of individual Native Americans on an assortment of subjects. The author additionally works superbly of spreading out the history of Native American clans after Wounded Knee, including ever-changing government arrangements, including one called "termination," and how different clans responded. He is likewise honest about issues plaguing Native Americans, both urban and on reservations. Furthermore, And he is a great writer.
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