Stories About Growing Up on the Reservation

Morgan Talty’s The Night of the Living Rez is a searching and honest collection of short stories following a young Penobscot character named David and his coming of age on the rez, where community, family, and tradition are as fraught with colonial entanglement as they are forces for healing.  With hyperreal and welcoming prose, Talty […] The post Stories About Growing Up on the Reservation appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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