Okay, so I mostly write reviews of horror novels. Night of the Living Rez is more the horrors of drug and alcohol addiction on a Penobscot reservation in Maine (Ha! We all know Maine is horror central) and there are references to ghosts that knock on walls, havoc-causing children who never had a chance to grow up, and a swamp lady (being a swamp lady is one of my ambitions.) But I want to recommend this book as some mighty fine writing. If Morgan Talty doesn't win a Pulitzer or Booker prize, I'll be surprised.
It's a collection of short stories, but it reads like a novel. The same protagonist and the same characters appear throughout the tales at different ages and different stages of their lives.
Really, if you want writing excellence, try Night of the Living Rez.
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