In a World Created by a Drunken God
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50books_poc22. Drew Hayden Taylor, In a World Created by a Drunken God.
Jason Pierce, a mixed-blood Ojibwe man, answers a knock on his door; the white stranger on the other side claims to be Jason's half-brother, and has come to ask for one of Jason's kidneys for their father.
...and if you don't think that becomes a mess of conflicting and highly emotional accounts of who owes what to whom and why, you don't know people.
I loved Jason Pierce as a character, and for all the same reasons that his half-brother, Harry Dieter, thinks that Jason is a cold and unlikable man. (And to be fair, Harry Dieter has a point: Jason isn't being exactly kind or gracious about any of this. But then, Harry's expectation that Jason should be gracious, or that Jason should give weight to Harry's account of what a good father Dieter Sr. is, or basically any other expectation Harry has? It must be nice to have a life where you can have those expectations of the world.)
(additional tags: anishinaabe, ojibwe, Canadian)
Jason Pierce, a mixed-blood Ojibwe man, answers a knock on his door; the white stranger on the other side claims to be Jason's half-brother, and has come to ask for one of Jason's kidneys for their father.
...and if you don't think that becomes a mess of conflicting and highly emotional accounts of who owes what to whom and why, you don't know people.
I loved Jason Pierce as a character, and for all the same reasons that his half-brother, Harry Dieter, thinks that Jason is a cold and unlikable man. (And to be fair, Harry Dieter has a point: Jason isn't being exactly kind or gracious about any of this. But then, Harry's expectation that Jason should be gracious, or that Jason should give weight to Harry's account of what a good father Dieter Sr. is, or basically any other expectation Harry has? It must be nice to have a life where you can have those expectations of the world.)
(additional tags: anishinaabe, ojibwe, Canadian)
