Elina Khachaturyan Khachaturyan itibaren Appeville, France
Read this when I was teaching at Berkeley High...thanks to Tammy Harmon! Read it after watching Incident at Oglala, so this added a much more personal dimension, and was really interesting because it came from the perspective of a young woman who was part of AIM. Oddly, I felt like I could relate to a lot of the issues in an oblique kind of way...a sense of longing for tradition, but being distanced by circumstance, history, and modernity. There's a lostness that I could identify with, but also a thrill of trying to create and be a part of something could, but ultimately didn't, heal it all that I sort of envied a little.
Creative take a well-known story, but too long and dragged out. Plus the whole political message in a novel thing is irritating.