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ISBN: 0806169370

ISBN13: 9780806169378

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Book Overview

In Watermelon Nights, Greg Sarris tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. Told from the points of view of a twenty-year-old Pomo man named Johnny Severe, his grandmother Elba, and his mother, Iris, this intergenerational saga uncovers the secrets-and traumatic events-that inform each of these characters' extraordinary powers of perception. First published...

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Rated 4 stars
indians in the north bay

i liked this one because it reminded me alot of faulkner. i like the way the narrative was told through each of the three generations of indians. the irony was not lost on me that they resented white people and yet they knew they had to assimilate to survive in america.this book will give you alot to think about....

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A book worth reading

I received this book as a present, not knowing much about the author, I decided to give it a try. The book captured my attention and drew me in as each of the characters told their story. There were many unsettling things brought about by this book, but like life itself, it told many aspects of life people try to brush over. Greg Sarris has a way of storytelling that brings the reader into the story and want for more...

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Rated 5 stars
A Sensuous and Compelling Portrait of a People's Survival

Like Steinbeck or Faulkner, Native American novelist Greg Sarris uses the lives and voices of his characters to evoke a living landscape in which memory and magic, place and passion are inseparable. The hypnotic nature of Sarris's story-telling is due, in part, to the way in which the plot unfolds in reverse, unwinding backward through time in layers of lost memory and meaning. In Part One of the novel, a young mixed-blood...

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