"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see...
"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We'll go back to where we came from, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, that we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, only to die in the grass wearing feathers."
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path.
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We are the memories we don’t remember, which live in us, which we feel, which make us sing and dance
and pray the way we do, feelings from memories that flare and bloom unexpectedly in our lives like blood through a blanket from a wound made by a bullet fired by a man shooting us in the back for our hair, for our heads, for a bounty, or just to get rid of us. (查看原文)
Urban Indians feel at home walking in the shadow of a downtown building. We came to know the downtown
Oakland skyline better than we did any sacred mountain range, the redwoods in the Oakland hills better than any other deep wild forest. We know the sound of the freeway better than we do rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls, we know the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than we do the smell of cedar or sage or even fry bread—which isn’t traditional, like reservations aren’t traditional, but nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed. We ride buses, trains, and cars across, over, and under concrete plains. Being Indian has never been about returning to the land.... (查看原文)
（广图041）毫不奇怪我看的这本英版封面上最显眼的地方写着“A Thunderclap” - Marion James了。这就是一简配易读版”A brief history of seven killings” 啊。 Urban Indians, 以前完全不了解的人群，但读来和所有美国社会边缘人群的故事似乎差别不大。文字上很有种rap感，也是为什么Marion James会喜欢吧；但刚读完Midd...（广图041）毫不奇怪我看的这本英版封面上最显眼的地方写着“A Thunderclap” - Marion James了。这就是一简配易读版”A brief history of seven killings” 啊。 Urban Indians, 以前完全不了解的人群，但读来和所有美国社会边缘人群的故事似乎差别不大。文字上很有种rap感，也是为什么Marion James会喜欢吧；但刚读完Middlemarch读这本就觉得，当代小说就，还差点火候？//书中吐槽几次说当代Indians被迫用颜色来当作自己的姓，读完我一看封面，作者叫 Tommy Orange, 就突然很难过。(展开)
一年前看的，很多东西读过且过都不记得标记hh老实说看到一半我就倦了，为了赶essay好像是直接看了中文版/sparknotes summary，大结局读的书。 这本书的可读性……为了一个mass shooting全员身亡的大结局之前弄那么多人物...一年前看的，很多东西读过且过都不记得标记hh老实说看到一半我就倦了，为了赶essay好像是直接看了中文版/sparknotes summary，大结局读的书。 这本书的可读性……为了一个mass shooting全员身亡的大结局之前弄那么多人物那么长的铺垫，还好我中间没仔细看，like我本来就人名记忆障碍还搞那么多narrative tones&pov你以为自己是曹雪芹呢？曹公也不敢这么experimental，got more soul than a sock with a hole是吧。一定要这么大的故事框架才能把故事和道理讲清楚吗？(展开)
Someone like me who grew up outside North America, I knew very little about First Nations' history. I learnt more after I came to Canada. I learnt the past on a larger scale when I was at school in China, we learnt about the European maritime navigation era...
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1 有用 沙拉勺子 2019-06-22 08:41:48
我很意外这本书能让我读的放不下来，有点点缝隙时间都会拿起来kindle看几行，但是我不知道是不是本适合被推荐的书。整本书真的是真实的可怕。非常hit home，但是我觉得如果对native American文化没有近距离的了解过的话可能会很难产生共情。难能可贵的这个题材的好书。
0 有用 太阳小鸟花和我 2021-01-23 11:19:41
2021 #1
0 有用 brucas 2021-12-19 17:38:22
（广图041）毫不奇怪我看的这本英版封面上最显眼的地方写着“A Thunderclap” - Marion James了。这就是一简配易读版”A brief history of seven killings” 啊。 Urban Indians, 以前完全不了解的人群，但读来和所有美国社会边缘人群的故事似乎差别不大。文字上很有种rap感，也是为什么Marion James会喜欢吧；但刚读完Midd... （广图041）毫不奇怪我看的这本英版封面上最显眼的地方写着“A Thunderclap” - Marion James了。这就是一简配易读版”A brief history of seven killings” 啊。 Urban Indians, 以前完全不了解的人群，但读来和所有美国社会边缘人群的故事似乎差别不大。文字上很有种rap感，也是为什么Marion James会喜欢吧；但刚读完Middlemarch读这本就觉得，当代小说就，还差点火候？//书中吐槽几次说当代Indians被迫用颜色来当作自己的姓，读完我一看封面，作者叫 Tommy Orange, 就突然很难过。 (展开)
0 有用 Dust Blessur 2022-04-04 15:27:47
終於讀完了啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！那個there there的概念真是又感動又心酸又深刻又希望 太好了
0 有用 捺捺🐰 2019-07-26 22:19:05
It's one of those books where everyone's life comes together in some Babel (the movie)-esque way 丧的很真实 文字有些平铺直叙但是真情实感 不过还是有些难共情 所以总是拿起又放下
0 有用 Answer Lu 2024-04-05 19:48:53 上海
bad writing
0 有用 GoGreez!!! 2023-12-29 06:21:38 美国
一年前看的，很多东西读过且过都不记得标记hh老实说看到一半我就倦了，为了赶essay好像是直接看了中文版/sparknotes summary，大结局读的书。 这本书的可读性……为了一个mass shooting全员身亡的大结局之前弄那么多人物... 一年前看的，很多东西读过且过都不记得标记hh老实说看到一半我就倦了，为了赶essay好像是直接看了中文版/sparknotes summary，大结局读的书。 这本书的可读性……为了一个mass shooting全员身亡的大结局之前弄那么多人物那么长的铺垫，还好我中间没仔细看，like我本来就人名记忆障碍还搞那么多narrative tones&pov你以为自己是曹雪芹呢？曹公也不敢这么experimental，got more soul than a sock with a hole是吧。一定要这么大的故事框架才能把故事和道理讲清楚吗？ (展开)
0 有用 柯六一 2023-07-03 11:30:11 加拿大
我其实有点不太能get到....
0 有用 Zerozoro 2023-02-21 08:37:09 加拿大
最后一章powwow，枪击发生，把所有之前的苦难都具像化了，所有人的命运都交织在一起，仿佛是相似的，身穿regalia死在草坪上。Tommy的文字仿佛是慢动作的运镜，每一个场景都是大鼓在人心上敲，直到把心脏敲的粉碎。自我认同，寻根溯源，借酒消愁，人生无常。最后powwow的惨剧不是源于外部，而是一群Indian，很唏嘘。
0 有用 杜子 2022-04-09 03:10:36
算当代水平很高的作品了。