"We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian, arrange you like furniture, like you should have something to say to each other." As one character after another tells it in these stories, much that happens to them does so "because I'm an Indian." And, as Stephen Graham Jones tells it in one remarkable story after another, the life of an Indian in modern America is as rich in irony as it is in tradition. A noted Blackfeet writer, Jones offers a nuanced and often biting look at the lives of Native peoples from the inside. A young Indian man's journey to "discover America" results in an unsettling understanding of relations between whites and Natives in the twenty-first century, a relationship still fueled by mistrust, stereotypes, and almost casual violence. A character waterproofs his boots with transmission fluid; another steals into Glacier National Park to hunt. One man uses watermelon to draw flies off poached deer; another, in a modern twist on the captivity narrative, kidnaps a white girl in a pickup truck; and a son bleeds into the father carrying him home. Rife with arresting and poignant images, fleeting and daring in presentation, weighty and provocative in their messages, these stories demonstrate the power of one of the most compelling writers in Native North America today. Stephen Graham Jones is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of the novels "The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong", "All the Beautiful Sinners" and "The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto"
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"The concluding story, 'Discovering America,' brilliantly encapsulates the whole collection... Jones' sardonic tale reveals the sort of casual stereotyping and prejudice that never seems to disappear." Booklist "I thought these stories were amazing. A Native Stuart Dybek, clean prose with a skewed lens and a bite--yes, this is it." Diane Glancy, author of Designs of the Night Sky "Stephen Jones is a visionary storier; he has created marvelous, fantastic narratives at the ironic edge of ordinary experience and reality." Gerald Vizenor, author of Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57
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Stephen Graham Jones is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of the novels "The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong," "All the Beautiful Sinners," and "The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto."
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if you're not reading stephen jones...you need to start. now.
25 Aug 2005
By D. McCoy
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stephen jones, the author of three previous novels, THE FAST RED ROAD, ALL THE BEAUTIFUL SINNERS, and THE BIRD IS GONE as done it once again. time and time again jones manages to blow me away with his vision of the world around us. BLEED INTO ME is a collection of stories, some have been published previously while others this is their first time seeing print. nobody puts together scenes like stephen jones. nobody takes ordinary events and flips them on their head like he does. the characters that roam the pages of this collection are 'real' people, people we all know. to steal a line from another review that sums it up best, "Jones sees this world, its parallels between beauty and despair, grace and turmoil, and describes it with originality and stylistic flair. Jones's vision is unflinchingly peculiar. It's also a vision like no other.
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6 Oct 2005
By Daniel Short
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This is a very strong collection of stories and an excellent place to start if you're new to Stephen Graham Jones. If you want to have a taste before taking the 15 dollar plunge, do what I did and type the author's name into that A9 Web Search box up top. Several of the short stories featured here can be sampled through various online publications, along with other little gems that could have just as easily fit into the book. You'll probably find yourself hooked before it even arrives in the mail.
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By Gordon T. Highland
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Beautiful stuff, spanning topics both on and off the reservation -- mostly youthful indiscretions, mischief, inherited sins, getting the girl's attention, etc. with tragic consequences. Standout tales for me include "Carbon," "Filius Nervosus," and "Bile."
As with the best of his work, Jones asks the reader to participate attentively from the first line, as he jumps right into his stories like you're the last of your friends to get picked up in the van headed to the party (or hospital or hunting trip) while everyone else is already three beers down regaling you with snippets that get you up to speed mere seconds before the crash.
As with the best of his work, Jones asks the reader to participate attentively from the first line, as he jumps right into his stories like you're the last of your friends to get picked up in the van headed to the party (or hospital or hunting trip) while everyone else is already three beers down regaling you with snippets that get you up to speed mere seconds before the crash.
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