Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

May 08, 2011 13:40

2. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor (Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2011)

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass sees Nanabush himself riding onto the Otter Lake reserve on a vintage motorcycle to fulfill a promise to an old friend and shake up the lives of the chief and her son ( Read more... )

au.race:first.nations, (delicious), au.race.ojibwa, tradition, genre:magical.realism, au.nationality:canada, modernity

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holyschist May 9 2011, 19:01:55 UTC
That was pretty much my exact reaction to Night Wanderer--good concept, good dialogue, fell flat. He just doesn't seem to have quite figured out a voice as a novelist.

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atdelphi May 10 2011, 00:20:02 UTC
I'm interested in looking at more of his work, but I'd probably get eye-twitchy if I had to slog through another novel in the same style.

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