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A review by emmaraeempowered
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
Night of the Living Rez was incredible.
I didn't know anything about it before picking it up to read for the Skoden Readathon(created by Kim @Native Lady Book Warrior)
In this story we follow an Indigenous boy who in the beginning finds a cursed jar under the house he and his mother just moved into. From this point we flash back from his childhood to his adult hood. We see his family dynamic unfold in heartbreaking ways. I found this novel really emotional and profound. We would watch a scene unfold from his child self and see how a child is making sense of what is happening around him, to then seeing how that has affected him as an adult or how his adult self has come to learn what was really happening.
This was a fast pace read because of how the story was broken up into shorter stories jumping back and forth through time. You could feel the care that the author took writing these characters and writing their lives play out. I cried at a few moments while reading and had to pause my reading.
I strongly recommend reading this book. It is beautifully written.
I didn't know anything about it before picking it up to read for the Skoden Readathon(created by Kim @Native Lady Book Warrior)
In this story we follow an Indigenous boy who in the beginning finds a cursed jar under the house he and his mother just moved into. From this point we flash back from his childhood to his adult hood. We see his family dynamic unfold in heartbreaking ways. I found this novel really emotional and profound. We would watch a scene unfold from his child self and see how a child is making sense of what is happening around him, to then seeing how that has affected him as an adult or how his adult self has come to learn what was really happening.
This was a fast pace read because of how the story was broken up into shorter stories jumping back and forth through time. You could feel the care that the author took writing these characters and writing their lives play out. I cried at a few moments while reading and had to pause my reading.
I strongly recommend reading this book. It is beautifully written.