House Made of Dawn

its not... bad? but its very hard to follow. up until the end i could barely tell you what happened in the book if not for the fact that i read it for a class. there were definitely interesting concepts and connections, and it got me emotional in some ways but most of it was.. hmm..

Interesting and poetic, I enjoyed the writing style and descriptions but found the characters less fleshed out than I would have liked to see.

HMM. I think, when all is said and done, perhaps I did not totally understand this book. I enjoyed the poetic prose very much. And I enjoyed the shifts in perspective. And I think I got the gist of the native closeness to the land vs white American consumerist shit. But overall it just didn't grab me the way it should have–and I think I lost patience with it and didn't pay it the attention it deserved.

Still, I think I value this book more for its contributions as a forerunner of the contemporary Native American literary movement than I did as a book to read.

Abel returns to the reservation
after serving in World War II,
but has trouble adapting to
his life there. Very depressing.
I was most amazed with the way
this author brought me into his
world through the use of sensory
details.