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Night of the Living Rez
Night of the Living Rez | Morgan Talty
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"I am not predicting literary success for Morgan Talty, I am guaranteeing it. He is a fascinating and powerful and singular writer." --Rick Bass, author of For a Little While
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Tamra
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5⭐️ Interlocking short stories composed of the life experiences of David as a Native American boy & man on an eastern US reservation. Nonlinear - reads the way memories pop up in our consciousness.

Having grown up in an isolated NA village, in MHO the writing feels very real and is emotionally gripping.

I will most definitely be reading Talty‘s novel that looks to be coming out in April next year.

IndoorDame I love your bookmark! 5mo
Tamra @IndoorDame thank you! I love the texture - I purchased it at an arts center which features the work of people with disabilities. 5mo
jlhammar Yes!! Great book. I didn‘t know about his forthcoming novel. Exciting! 5mo
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Tamra @jlhammar I know! Now if I only remember to look for it. 😉 5mo
shawnmooney Love love loved this one too! 👏👏👏 5mo
BookNAround This was one of the Women‘s National Book Association‘s Great Group Reads for 2022. 5mo
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Tamra
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Trying to read, but with the time change Cooper thinks he‘s going to starve to death waiting.

Loud & clear Mr. Cooper.

mcctrish I think I will too 5mo
LeahBergen Feed him. He‘s wasting away! 😆 5mo
AmyG Hahahaha. I just looked at the clock thinking it was 6, time for dinner. It‘s 5 😳 5mo
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dabbe Hello there, Cutey Cooper! I bet your mamma will fix you an AWESOME dinner! 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
Amiable Oh my gosh, our cat started stalking us two hours before she was due to eat. 😖 5mo
sarahbarnes 😂😂😂 5mo
Aimeesue My dogs are SO confused. 5mo
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Tamra
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Wow, only two stories in and I‘m hooked! The writing is amazing. So glad I pulled it off the shelf this time.

I‘d much rather be reading than doing admin crap. 😣

jlhammar I thought these stories were excellent! 5mo
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charl08

...during part of the float the river had spaced us out so Tyson was far to my left, and JP far to Tyson's left, and when we came to the bend of the river its meandering pull brought us together and it was then that we paddled four strokes to the shore and the canoes slid up on the soft dirt bank, a wall of vines dangling down like wet hair. We tied the canoes... and with aching, lowered heads we walked the darkening woods to the street.

Anna40 I love this author and collection. beautiful 6mo
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Mom had this way to make you want to die....

Soon, Mom came out of the room and put the phone se the hook. She didn't ask how the sandwich was. "I'm beating to Overtown soon," she said, returning to the bathroom, and in time Mom's makeup container snapped shut, and when she came out of the bathroom she said nothing to me and left. I could do no wrong when Paige was around, but the moment she was gone, the world in which we lived became my fault.

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charl08
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Peter Jennings was gearing up to a segment about NASA and Pioneer 10, how it sent its last signal, and how NASA had no plans to contact Pioneer 10. No plans! None. The metal ship was going to keep on going way out there in quiet, quiet glides of black, and since it was a thing, a machine, it couldn't see like us, and we way back here would never, ever know if the machine was okay.

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MidnightBookGirl
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Current #audiobook. Anyone else here do Reading Rivalry o Facebook? I‘m on team #RRFirekeepersDaughter

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Anna40
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All stories are set in a Native American community in Maine and center around the main character as a boy and young man. Safe Harbour was my favourite. Themes are trauma, addiction, mental illness and poverty. I loved the voice and the writing is so good I felt immersed in the stories and place.

Readergrrl I‘ve got this on my Summer TBR pile! 8mo
Anna40 @Readergrrl I loved it! 8mo
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Pinta
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Interconnected short stories, David‘s family & friends on the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation. Beer & smoke runs. Porcupine quills. Carcasses. Caterpillar carpets. Methadone.Teeth in jars. Pugwagees. Moose meat & corn fritters. Medicine men. Mental health. Smudging as an act of loving kindness. P216 “I had nowhere to go, but I ran like I did.” 2022

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ClairesReads
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The impact of substance abuse and generational deprivation sits at the centre of each of these stories. Although there are moments in this collection that are unrelentingly bleak, there are also moments of humour in the narrative voice. In this way, Talty takes a look at the complexities of lives in these places. As will all collections, this was a little uneven, but built towards a devastating conclusion.

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Nebklvr
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If you are looking for a plot, these connected stories will not be for you. However, if you are looking for an untethered timeline which allows the emphasis of the bonds between people and place and the demons hiding within, look no further. This will hit that sad, dark, tense spot in your psyche.

Tamra Anxious to read this one! 1y
KristiAhlers This is on my list for the reading challenge I‘m doing which is the top 100 reads of 2022 by Time Magazine. 1y
Nebklvr @KristiAhlers ohhh… i read for book girls challenge. Haven‘t heard of that one. 1y
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Nebklvr @Tamra not a happy book but compelling 1y
Nebklvr @KristiAhlers I checked out the list to see how many of the books I have read….very few. 1y
KristiAhlers @Nebklvr same. Which is why I‘m trying to rectify that. 😊 1y
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Centique
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Christmas Book Mail!! I got two Book Depository packages in the mail this morning. One had - Space, Bliss Montage and High Risk Homosexual - and must be from @Reggie Thank you Reggie! That was such an exciting package to open and all books I want to read. I am on a long hold list at the library for Ling Ma! So glad to have it in my hands - I loved Severance🥰

Now who is Night of the Living Rez from? I am so excited to read this too!

Reggie That‘s also from me. Happy Holidays, Paula. ❤️ 1y
Centique @Reggie oh man Reggie, you totally spoiled me with book treasures. Thank you so much! Did my packages arrive yet? 🤞🤞 The one I posted is always the one I worry about xxx 1y
Reggie I did, thank you. I was gonna wait until tomorrow to open everything. 1y
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Centique @Reggie oh so glad! I had a package that got lost going to Cindy and I‘ve never quite trusted packages will get there since 😬 1y
LeahBergen Aww, how lovely! 1y
squirrelbrain Lovely gifts! ❤️ 1y
Rissreads You better start reading!🤣 1y
batsy How wonderful! ❤️ 1y
Cathythoughts Fab ! Lucky you ❤️ 1y
Megabooks What great gifts! 1y
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jlhammar
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Wow, impressive debut. These linked short stories, all narrated by David, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, at different points in his life, are striking. Heavy and bleak, but also tender and beautiful. I‘ll be reading whatever Talty writes next.

Tamra Will check it out! 1y
BkClubCare Effective review! 1y
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shawnmooney
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https://youtu.be/9AvVHM7dpD4

#SkodenReadathon
#ernauxvember
#BookTubeSpin7

Intro

Highlights

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson

Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd

The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera

shawnmooney Happening by Annie Ernaux

After The Carnage by Tara June Winch

Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
by Jesse Wente

We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence by Gerald T. Conaty (Editor)
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vlwelser
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This book is amazing. I kept thinking it was a real story, but it's fiction. Which I had to keep reminding myself. Over and over. It is not happy. The last two stories are especially extra.

I bought it in an indie bookstore in ME, not realizing the book is set in Maine. My book club bestie picked this and I love her for it. The rest of the book club is complaining that it's depressing. 🤷

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

SamAnne This is towards the top of my TBR list! 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1y
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TracyReadsBooks
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I enjoyed this collection of interconnected stories set on a Native reservation in Maine. The stories touch on a range of subjects, including drugs and addiction, community, family, motherhood, parenting, trauma, displacement, racism, bigotry, colonialism, are sometimes funny and, quite often, heartbreaking. It‘s not always an easy read but it‘s a raw, powerful, and engaging one. I look forward to reading more by this author.

Readergrrl This book is in the TBR pile on my nightstand! Eager to read it and your review is pushing it up the pile!! 1y
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TracyReadsBooks
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Reading a chunkster so grabbing a more portable book for today‘s train ride.

library.dreamer I really liked this one! 1y
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TracyReadsBooks
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Went for a walk, came home with a new book.🤷‍♀️😬

ShyBookOwl Worst things could happen on a walk 1y
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Jolynne
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A look at reservation life in Maine through 12 related stories.

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janeycanuck
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Really moving writing but not quite the right POV for me. The stories all have young men at their centre - but all have a secondary older female character, like a mother or a friend‘s mother. And those are the stories I wanted - give me Beth‘s story or David‘s mom‘s story! So… yeah, I need someone to pick this up and tell the other side of all the stories!

rachelm I love that insight 1y
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Kazzie
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Excellent! The stories work collectively but also on their own. Sad funny real stories. I enjoyed reading about indigenous lives in the US. There is grief and trauma but also lots of love

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MysticFaerie
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4.5⭐/5⭐

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Hooked_on_books
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These stories are so tightly bound together that I‘m a little surprised this wasn‘t marketed as a novel, since I feel they work as one. We follow a Penobscot family living on the rez and the quiet desperation of their lives in poverty. I really liked this.

Christine I agree with all of this! 2y
jlhammar Looking forward to this one! 2y
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Lindy
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I was surprised by how much I could relate to in these 12 interconnected short stories about an Indigenous—Penobscot—family who live on a reservation in Maine, ie: driving over a solid mass of caterpillars on the road, or a car with a radio that goes on & off over bumps. I am fortunate that the serious problems in this book—living with addictions, family violence & poverty—are outside of my experience. Darrell Dennis narrates the fine audiobook.

merelybookish Your review makes me want to read this more. I was already intrigued by the title. 2y
Lindy @merelybookish I hope you will tag me if you read it. 😊 2y
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… Tabitha, an asshole everyone at the clinic knew, who threw up her liquid methadone and then sold it …

KathyR 😝 2y
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ErikasMindfulShelf
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Set in a Native Community in Maine, these stories follow David at different points in his life. There is a lot of sorrow and tragedy as well as tenderness and love between family members. 4 stars.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.

SamAnne Oh this is on my list! 2y
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Christine
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This was fantastic. I'm super impressed by Morgan Talty's writing voice and how it somehow perfectly conveys everything from everyday home life to normalized substance abuse and trauma to loving, complex relationships to intensely tragic moments. And I cared so much about what happened to David/Dee and his loved ones. Really enjoyed the audio (which I was grateful to access via the #librofm #ALC program).

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jlhammar
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Thursday #bookmail! Really looking forward to this debut collection.

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Rhondareads
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Brilliant short stories rave reviews a collection I will be recommending.