"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)
作者说话太绕了，还喜欢用第二人称。人物多且杂。读到最后我都忘了之前这个人做过什么。一个说话绕的例子：But then he sees people run and stumble and drop and scream and generally lose their shit because soon , very soon , after what he at first thought mu...作者说话太绕了，还喜欢用第二人称。人物多且杂。读到最后我都忘了之前这个人做过什么。一个说话绕的例子：But then he sees people run and stumble and drop and scream and generally lose their shit because soon , very soon , after what he at first thought must have been something else and not gunfire became in his mind and before his eyes definite gunfire.(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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0 有用 蓝色雪糕妹妹 2020-05-09 00:35:54
路上听书。让我对印第安人的生活感兴趣。
1 有用 Clay 2018-12-20 00:27:40
作者说话太绕了，还喜欢用第二人称。人物多且杂。读到最后我都忘了之前这个人做过什么。一个说话绕的例子：But then he sees people run and stumble and drop and scream and generally lose their shit because soon , very soon , after what he at first thought mu... 作者说话太绕了，还喜欢用第二人称。人物多且杂。读到最后我都忘了之前这个人做过什么。一个说话绕的例子：But then he sees people run and stumble and drop and scream and generally lose their shit because soon , very soon , after what he at first thought must have been something else and not gunfire became in his mind and before his eyes definite gunfire. (展开)
0 有用 tutu 2022-01-07 14:03:59
人物/写法之间切换自如，不过流畅性也多亏了人物小传集合式的松散结构。虽然很精彩，但是断断续续的。如果不是尾声有那么不节制地对濒死经验幻想，绝对媲美大师之作。
0 有用 bayer04 2019-09-04 16:16:29
无法带入 看不进去
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。