I almost didn't vote for this book in this initial poll until I read more about it. Finding that the author not only wrote from a Native American perspective but also wrote in the style of Native American speech intrigued me, and I was not disappointed. I also enjoyed the historical information in the book and the imagining of what normal non-idealised day-to-day life might've been like for the Lone Eaters and others of the area just before the encroachment of the white man.
Including the fantastical elements was an interesting decision and I liked how that gave me not only a glimpse of their religion but helped me to better understand their view of the world.
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Originally Posted by issybird
That was a fun reveal. I, too, thought that White Man's Dog was meant to be derogatory, especially given how fearful and directionless he was at the beginning of the book...
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I enjoyed the playfulness of the text in this regard. Welch often left small questions like this unanswered for a long time, letting us wonder if they ever would be, only to be slyly revealed as asides later on.