The Light People is a multi-genre novel that includes a series of nested stories about a tribal community in Northern Minnesota. Taking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People , a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and ...
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The Light People is a multi-genre novel that includes a series of nested stories about a tribal community in Northern Minnesota. Taking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People , a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques to create a multifaceted, deeply rooted, and vibrant portrait of the author's own tribal culture. Keenly aware of Eurocentric views of that culture, Henry offers a "corrective history" where humor and wisdom transcend the political.
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The last Native American fiction work I read was Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven. This work is similar, but more organized. It is essentially a series of vignettes about certain interconnected people on the reservation and some of the dreams they have and things that happen to them.