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I bought this book after having to get it for my college class. From the first story I read from it, I decided I needed to have it in my collection library of books. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a love and interest, and respect for American Indian culture. The stories in it are nothing like the ordinary materialistic, meaningless garble that's on the market right now. This is truly a book Worth having.


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Talking Leaves Contemporary Native American Short Stories Craig Lesley Katheryn Stavrakis Books Reviews

Most anthologies are inconsistent, as the quality of the various contributions varies from author to author. "Talking Leaves" is, unfortunately, no exception. While editor Craig Lesley's decision to introduce several new (sometimes unpublished) writers is commendable, there are a few rather mediocre stories or vignettes. Also, I noticed a tendency on the part of Oregon-resident Lesley to slightly favor writers from Pacific Northwest nations. Nonetheless, I would say the vast majority of the contributions are very good, if not excellent, and the variety of styles and apects of Native American life/history it contains is very impressive. The excerpts taken out of novels, something I usually dislike, are fairly good and function well as short stories (i.e. from N. Scott Momaday's "Ancient Child" and James Welch's "Fools Crow"), even though it's still obvious that they are taken from larger works. By far the best contribution is "Aunt Moon's Young Man" by Linda Hogan. The longest story in the book, it is beautifully written and absorbing - I had the impression I had just finished a novel after reading it. Thomas King's "A Seat in the Garden" is also one of the better contributions, and absolutely hilarious. In fact, a nice aspect that comes out of many of the stories is the dry humor or humorous themes, from a white revival preacher's attempt to get a very relectant Indian family to pray with him to an elderly woman's dilemmas with a cheap, noisy new refrigerator. "Talking Leaves" is a good introduction to Native American literature, although it was published almost a decade ago, so it does not include some of the younger writers who emerged in the past few years (most notably Sherman Alexie).
I ended up ordering 2 more copies to send to friends. Rather than send my own copy and hope to get it back! LOL
my grandpa reads western and native american books. i bought it for my english class and gave it to him afterwards. he liked it.
HAVING MUCH CHEROKEE ANCESTRY, WANTED TO SEE IF THIS BOOK WOULD HOLD MY INTEREST. ONCE I PICKED IT UP.....COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN! WONDERFUL SHORT STORIES BY MULTITUDE OF NATIVE AMERICANS!
I am using this book in my Native American Literature course. I am enjoying the stories we have to read such as "The Bingo Van". All the stories I have read have intrigued me to learn more about our Native American heritage through stories.
Good stories.
Wonderful short stories. I'll keep this review short too. Just pick it up & read them, worth your time.
I bought this book after having to get it for my college class. From the first story I read from it, I decided I needed to have it in my collection library of books. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a love and interest, and respect for American Indian culture. The stories in it are nothing like the ordinary materialistic, meaningless garble that's on the market right now. This is truly a book Worth having.