![]() ![]() An old solitary confinement room that held warriors. Odie practically lives in the “quiet room” here. They are two white boys in an all Indian school called The Lincoln Indian Training School-used to be a military outpost called Fort Sibley. Odie O’Banion is the narrator’s name, and accompanying him is his older brother, Albert. He brings the reader back to 1932 during the midst of the Great Depression when he was a young boy. He lives along the banks of the Gilead River in a house shaded by a Sycamore tree. You start out with a narrator who considers himself a storyteller. You learn why toward the end of the book. The main character’s name is literally Odysseus. This does have a lot of The Odyssey references. ![]() Trigger warnings: murder, mention of drugs, talk of alcoholism, child abuse-physical & mental, prostitution (brothel), and the hint at sexual abuse toward minors/children. Sure this is hard work, but it’s good work, because it’s part of what connects us to this land, Buck. ![]() In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. ![]() I would usually just put the Goodreads synopsis here, but I thought it was too big of a story to just give a brief rundown. *The cover photo is taken from Goodreads.* Genre: Historical Fiction (my library categorized it into the “Mystery” section?) ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |