Mending Skins (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives). Eric Gansworth

Mending Skins (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)



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Language: English
Page: 166
ISBN: 0803271182, 9780803204973

From Publishers Weekly

Gansworth's third novel (after Smoke Dancing) begins rather ponderously with a partial transcript of a keynote address at a conference to protect and reclaim Indian images, but the primary narrator is soon revealed to be garrulous Shirley Mounter, whose daughter, Annie Boans, an art historian, is involved in the conference. Shirley and Annie are members of the Tuscarora tribe, which once dominated the land around Niagara Falls, and the tribulations of the tribe are the backdrop for Shirley's rambling storytelling, which mostly deals with her problematic relationship with her lazy husband, Harris. Annie's equally troubled marriage enters the picture in the second half of the book, but the novel's climax comes in a scene in which a group of reservation bad boys drive a car into the house of Annie's mother-in-law, Martha, who loses most of her possessions in the subsequent fire. Gansworth's decision to break up Shirley's narration with first-person passages from the perspective of other characters presents definite strengths and weaknesses; stylistically, it creates a folksy, appealing tone that makes the novel more accessible, but the choppy, uneven storytelling leads to a lack of focus. The play of voices can be engaging, but the narrative lacks the coherence to be truly effective. (Mar.)
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Review

“A wonderful idiosyncratic novel full of wisdom and hope, humor and dance, and transcendent in its beauty. Since the appearance of his first book Indian Summers, the novelist, short story writer, painter, and poet Eric Gansworth has been an indefatigable chronicler of the infinite lives of Upstate New York''s Indian communities but with Mending Skins he has produced a small masterpiece, a rich and varied spectacle that illuminates the deepest quadrants of the human heart.”—Junot Díaz, author of Drown (Junot D�az )

“What distinguishes this short novel from others is its sharp wit and particular tribal locale, the Tuscarora, in upstate New York. . . . Gansworth’s own illustrations preface each section and foreshadow plot events. The characters are so engaging and events intertwined that a longer novel would have been welcome.”—P. Jane Hafen, Multicultural Review (P. Jane Hafen Multicultural Review )

“Eric Gainsworth is unquestionably one of the rising stars on the Western New York literary scene.”—R. D. Pohl, Buffalo Spree Magazine (R. D. Pohl Buffalo Spree Magazine )



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