Night Of The Living Rez, By Morgan Talty.
Synopsis: Night of the Living Rez tells the story of David, a Penobscot man growing up on a reservation. The book has some stories that move between his childhood and his young adult life. We see him deal with family struggles, his mom’s boyfriends, his sister’s problems, poverty, and addiction. Morgan Talty writes with deep and dark humor about what life is really like on the rez. The stories show how the past keeps coming back and how people keep trying to survive and live their lives even when things are hard.
Blurb:
Mary Rowlandson: This reading, Night of the Living Rez, shows the suffering of the Penobscot people today. David and his family face poverty, broken families, and the heavy burden of addiction. Like my own time of captivity, they endure many trials and hardships. Yet Talty writes with honesty about their pain and their will to keep living. These stories teach us that even in darkness and affliction, people still fight to survive, hold on to their families, and recover and find them lost selves. A powerful and honest book.
Walt Whitman: I celebrate the living people of the Penobscot rez in all their truth and mess. Morgan Talty opens the real life of the reservation, the mothers and sons, the sisters and friends, the pain, the laughter, and the hard fight with addiction. This book does not hide the hurt or the beauty. It sings of the past that will not stay dead and the people who keep rising anyway. Night of the Living Rez is full of raw life and spirit. It is the true voice of America.
