Status Updates From There There

It's like hasn't him as a dad and not knowing, and how he fucked us up as a dad, I don't wanna come off like I think that's what being Native means. [...] But it's like we can't talk about it because it's not really a Native story, but then it is at the same time. It's fucked up.

Reading slowly because I don’t want it to be over.

That part just got me so anxious and upset.

oh blue :(((

mmm not sure how i feel about this book - i got curious after seeing it online and at the library. it's interesting so far i guess. :)

mmm not sure how i feel about this book - i got curious though after seeing it online and at the library. it's interesting so far i guess. :)

I’m glad this book is relatively short because I sort of want to start over again? I think it’d help me follow the narrative a little better since I’m listening and I probably need more visual cues to remember who people are.

i’m literally in a perpetual state of holding my breath with this book

spider

i’m so glad i learned how to read

this book is not what i need rn at all 😭

I returned it early. Read maybe 5 chapters.

Edwin’s story about a native guy having a white frjend stay over and then the white friend starts inviting more people in, takes over the entire apartment, moves him under the stairs, and starts a business in his home.

jacquie my beloved

“Some of us got this feeling stuck inside all the time, like we’ve done something wrong. Like we ourselves are something wrong. Like who we are deep inside. That thing we want to name but can’t; like we’re afraid we’ll be punished for it. So we hide. We drink alcohol because it helps us feel like we can be ourselves and not be afraid. We punish ourselves with it.”

girls who poop vs BITCHES who SHIT

opal and the devils kin

i was searching around the internet

the road and the web and the burning building

i think i forgot how to read (im on vacation w my gf)

this gets sadder and sadder

it’s sad that i want harvey and jaquie to be okay

2/2 We’ve boarded up windows and made better nets to catch them. Found more convincing ways to convince them not to jump. They’re making the decision that it’s better to be dead and gone than to be alive in what we have here, this life, the one we’ve made. The one they’ve inherited.”

1/2 “Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings falling to their deaths and we think the problem is that they’re jumping.
This is what we’ve done: we’ve tried to find ways to get them to stop jumping, convince them that burning alive is better than leaving when the shit gets too hot for them to take. for them. The one they’ve inherited.

35

Struggling to the end but it’s so good just anticipating a dark ending

Are you ever reading a book that you know is a masterpiece and it’s like so impossible to explain to people why you are having such a gut reaction to the writing? I’m having that feeling

I still can't believe this happened even though I knew it was going to happen 😥😥😥

yolo; dnf

This shit is too real. I need a palate cleanser for my next read 😭😭