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Depressing. Intriguing. Thought-provoking.

I just can’t get into this book. Tried 3 times and am just going to give up now.

“Opal is stone solid, but there is troubled water that lives in her, that sometimes threatens to flood, to drown her-rise up to her eyes. Sometimes she can't move.
Sometimes it feels impossible to do anything. But that's okay because she's become quite good at getting lost in the doing of things.”

Rekommenderar inte att lyssna på en bok utan att veta ifall det finns mer än en huvudkaraktär! Blev så förvirrad.

loving the author's writing style + multiple narrators/stories/plotlines

I’m excited for Dene and his documentary

“The drome, I didn’t see it there. I saw an Indian. I saw a dancer.” 🥺

DNF

nooooooooooo!!!



well.

“‘I get that shame too. The kind that’s made of more years than you know you have left to live. That shame that makes you wanna say fuck it and just go back to drinking as a means to an end.‘“ (112)

“He is ambiguously nonwhite. Over the years he’d been assumed Mexican plenty, been asked if he was Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Salvadoran once, but mostly the question came like this: What are you?” (29)
Also- omg it’s Oakland! Feeling seen. Love it.

👍

Why is Tommy Orange obsessed with bodily fluids ;-;

im about to start crying

this is like if on earth were briefly gorgeous and nightcrawling had a baby

”Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere”
Seriöst varför måste man äga land??

Oh shit

it’s taking me so long to get through this

Mirrors and reflection are a big theme. Their history is written on their appearance? Some characters also feel the opposite of that?
Their stories are starting to intertwine in a way that you have to think about. Showing not telling I think.

I’m focused solely on the characters. In which the plot has lost me a bit. Mostly in regards to the drug dealing boys and their connections. Bit of a slow start. Though, it seems to be picking up speed.

"Fina didn't do or say anything when I got back on my bike and left. I can't remember what I did or where I went that night. Sometimes you just go. And you're gone."

92

The prologue seems like a crazy story. It’s not. It’s really what happened to Natives.

ok this is getting better but should have fewer narrators !!!

I think this is a five star read

Forgot to complete this on Thursday 🤪 anyways the ending was very rushed and abrupt

I swear I'm jumping from one historical book to another lol

"'You gotta know about the history of your people. How you got to be here, that's all based on what people done to get you here. Us bears, you Indians, we been through a lot. They tried to kill us. But then when you hear them tell it, they make history seem like one big heroic adventure across an empty forest. There were bears and Indians all over the place. Sister, they slit all our throats.'"

tbh im struggling with this

Okay philosophy