Green Grass, Running Water: A Novel (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1993; vuoden 1994 painos)

Read for my Canadian Fiction class.

I really enjoyed this. It was definitely weird and I don't think I 'understood' even half of it, but I'm looking forward to our class discussion a lot! ( )

I read this book as part of a bookclub read. I had just finished The Inconvenient Indian so probably was on King overload. I found this book hard to get into because it was so hard to follow. The real life characters were the best part of the story for me, but all the symbolism and story telling bogged everything down. The moderator of our conference gave us a lot of background for each section as far as names and symbolism which definitely helped me to understand the story better. There are some humorous parts but overall, not a book I would read for enjoyment. ( )

(Rating: 4.5 /5.0, rounded up) ( )

(Rating: 4.5 /5.0, rounded up) ( )

Oh dear. While reading this, I felt frustrated. I didn't find it funny." I didn't think it unlike other Native fiction. I didn't understand it, or like it. *However* - days & other books later, I'm still thinking about it, and some glimmers of understanding are coming to me as I see something in life, or in another story, that seems to echo or reinforce, or be reinforced by, a theme or motif in King's book.

For example, I still think about the white owner and Indian salesman of the electronics store, and their relationship to one another. And about the man who stopped the implementation of an already built dam for at least a decade. And Alberta who wants a child but not a husband. And the way Coyote was overshadowed by the other characters in the Tales.

So, um, highly recommended to careful readers with some experience in or knowledge of Indian (especially Canadian Blackfoot and Cree) history - but probably not so appealing for ordinary readers like me." ( )