Outdated Faculty Indian by Aaron John Curtis
You’ve seen many coming-of-age novels by now, I’m positive, however have you ever ever seen a coming-of-middle-age one? In Curtis’s debut, Abe Jacobs is a 43-year-old Ahkwesáhsne man who begrudgingly returns to the reservation the place he grew up after greater than 20 years. The explanation for his return? Medical doctors have advised him he’s dying, and he’s selected the way in which therapy he by no means thought he would: a therapeutic by the hands of his unceremonious, recovered alcoholic nice uncle Budge. Now, he stays skeptical of being healed, however in his exploring it, there’s a seed of hope. Via witty traces and the musings of Abe’s poet alter ego, Dominick Deer Woods, we see him confront all these issues that saved him away from his dwelling for all that point. —Erica Ezeifedi