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Oh, boy, this will not be my last Stephen Graham Jones. I mean, I was already planning to read My Heart is a Chainsaw pretty soon, but this weird as hell short story has cemented my need to do that. Let the first sentence set the tone for you: "Eleven months after her husband Arthur swerved around a stopped school bus and mowed down two first graders and got sentenced to twenty years, Millie Two Bears went to war against the prairie dogs." Millie Two Bears, prison widow, was such a good main c...
https://thebookloversboudoir.wordpres...I’ve enjoyed other books by the author so was looking forward to The Backbone of the World. I really enjoyed this. The story starts off innocently enough with Millie trying to survive the last weeks on the ranch she’s lived all of her married life before her incarcerated husband’s family take it from her. The story gets darker and darker as Millie is plagued by prairie dogs which increase in number daily as if the universe is doubly punishing her. There ar...
Weirdass Native American + Lovecraftian wackadoodle story. I adore SGJ ❤️
I read the synopsis and was so intrigued, I had to read it!Also being Native, I am drawn to all things surrounding Native culture.This was also my introduction to the author. So I had many great reasons to be happy going into this.It was kind of weird though. Not gonna lie. It was also kind of genius. You really have no clue what's happening until the very end, and then you totally get everything.I loved Frog. She was a character.I really like those kind of stories. Sadly, they can often be the