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I first read Mapping the Interior about four years ago and didn't much care for it at the time due to the narrator's voice and sentence construction. This weekend I was given a chance to reread this novella for an upcoming episode of Staring Into The Abyss, a podcast I co-host in which our author guest chooses a favorite story by another author to discuss; this book is Shane Hawk's choice and I'm glad I was able to revisit this piece.I'm not sure if it's my being in a better mood or clearer head...
This is a very haunting and atmospheric tale that I think many readers will interpret differently, and feel a vast range of emotions. This is ownvoices for the Native representations, and this novella stars a young boy, living on a reservation with his family, who is seeing his dead father's ghost. And his father's ghost is very different than the man our main characters remembers. But this is a story about grief, and loss, and cycles of becoming our parents when sometimes we feel like we would
Mapping the Interior touched me in a way that's hard to define. A young man, missing and thinking of the father who died before he could really be known, believes he saw his father coming through a doorway. From there, we learn more about this young man, his family, Native American culture, and superstitions. In a way, this could be interpreted as a ghost story. In another interpretation it could be thought of a coming of age story-with perhaps a little psychological horror on the side. Howeve
I'm going to attempt to write this review after *just* finishing this story but just know, it killed me. I'm dead.So I had a bookstagram post lined up today with some books that are nominated for the Shirley Jackson award 2017.Mapping the Interior is nominated for the novella award. I was arranging the books for the photo when I decided that I wanted to read it before I posted it.I'm so glad I did. This is what I like to lovingly call a "gut punch".SGJ pulls you into this 12 year old boy's head
Real Rating: 4.75* of fiveIs this the real life? Or is it just fantasy? (Thank you, Queen, for the eternal ear-worm.) If this is just fantasy, be damned good and grateful you're not able to escape from reality.To sleepwalk is to be inhabited, yes, but not by something else, so much. What you’re inhabited by, what’s kicking one foot in front of the other, it’s yourself. It doesn’t make sense, but I don’t think it’s under any real compulsion to, finally. If anything, being inhabited by yourself li...
This elegiac but dragging new novella by Stephen Graham Jones features a haunting in the way that I believe it would actually occur. Not with translucent, floating apparitions banging on walls, levitating over you while you sleep, or chasing you down the halls of your house, but a haunting by something much more personal, quiet, and understated the way it is here.Jones uses weaves together elements of horror, superstition, family conflict, and Native American culture and lore to tell a coming of...
Stephen Graham Jones writes stories that connect to the heart of people. I'm not, in any way, similar to the protagonist here, and yet - he expresses something universal. It's horror, and definitely horrifying, but it's through the lens of that horror that we see the world stripped down to the basic truths that unite us all: you protect your family, and sometimes that means from each other. There are lines that shouldn't be crossed - and everyone has something that will push them over that line....
There is a blurb on the front cover from Paul Tremblay it says "Emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant. You will not be unmoved." In order to understand my 2.5 rating I have to break down this blurb.Emotionally raw. Okay, the book is emotional. It's about a twelve year old boy who is convinced that his dead father has come back to life to fix things and be a family again. Junior our main character has a fierce love toward his mother and little brother. His brother Dino, is mentally h...
The printed edition of this book has an exceptionally misleading back-cover blurb (which even begins with describing the narrator only as "a fifteen-year-old," instead the many-times stated twelve/thirteen year old he is, which very much threw off my grasp of the pacing) but luckily it's a strong enough story to beat the confusion and warrant a second reading at the very least. Shiver-making and creeping and shadow-dark.Also that ending is...
