The Only Good Indians: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a "masterpiece" (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled "one of 2020s buzziest horror novels" (Entertainment Weekly), this is a remarkable horror story that "will give you nightmares--the good kind of course" (BuzzFeed). From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a novel that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting social commentary on identity politics and the American Indian experience. Fans of Jordan Peele and Tommy Orange will love this story as it follows the lives of four American Indian men and their families, all haunted by a disturbing, deadly event that took place in their youth. Years later, they find themselves tracked by an entity bent on revenge, totally helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. Review "A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions." --Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW"The Only Good Indians is scary good. Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images. Its got love and revenge, blood and basketball. More than I could have asked for in a novel. It also both reveals and subverts ideas about contemporary Native life and identity. Novels can do some much to render actual and possible lives lived. Stephen Graham Jones truly knows how to do this, and how to move us through a story at breakneck (literally) speed. Ill never see an elk or hunting, or what a horror novel can do the same way again." --Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist of There There"How long must we pay for our mistakes, for our sins? Does a thoughtless act doom us for eternity? This is a novel of profound insight and horror, rich with humor and intelligence. The Only Good Indians is a triumph; somehow its a great story and also a meditation on stories. Ive wondered who would write a worthy heir to Peter Straubs Ghost Story. Now I know the answer: Stephen Graham Jones." --Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling"I like stories where nobody escapes their pasts because its what I fear most."--Terese Marie Mailhot, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries"Jones... has written a masterpiece. The book is... as instinctive and essential as it is harsh. Despite the blood and bleakness, The Only Good Indians is ultimately also about hope and the promise of the future...Read it."-- "Locus Magazine""Stephen Graham Jones is one of our greatest treasures. His prose here pops and sings, hard-boiled poetry conspiring with heartbreakingly-alive characters." --Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-Winning author of Blackfish City"Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course."--Buzzfeed"The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, ones place in the world, whats right and whats wrong. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with him." --Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake. "This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW"Thrilling, literate, scary, immersive. Bonus: The most terrifying one-on-one basketball contest ever. Makes that kid and the devil fighting for a golden fiddle look tame."--Stephen King, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Review Quote "This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED REVIEW Excerpt from Book 1. Friday FRIDAY Lewis is standing in the vaulted living room of his and Petas new rent house, staring straight up at the spotlight over the mantel, daring it to flicker on now that hes looking at it. So far it only comes on with its thready glow at completely random times. Maybe in relation to some arcane and unlikely combination of light switches in the house, or maybe from the iron being plugged into a kitchen socket while the clock upstairs isnt --or is?--plugged in. And dont even get him started on all the possibilities between the garage door and the freezer and the floodlights aimed down at the driveway. Its a mystery, is what it is. But--more important--its a mystery hes going to solve as a surprise for Peta, and in the time it takes her to drive down to the grocery store and back for dinner. Outside, Harley, Lewiss malamutant, is barking steady and pitiful from being tied to the laundry line, but the barks are already getting hoarse. Hell give it up soon enough, Lewis knows. Unhooking his collar now would be the dog training him, instead of the other way around. Not that Harleys young enough to be trained anymore, but not like Lewis is, either. Really, Lewis imagines, he deserves some big Indian award for having made it to thirty-six without pulling into the drive-through for a burger and fries, easing away with diabetes and high blood pressure and leukemia. And he gets the rest of the trophies for having avoided all the car crashes and jail time and alcoholism on his cultural dance card. Or maybe the reward for lucking through all that--meth too, he guesses--is having been married ten years now to Peta, who doesnt have to put up with motorcycle parts soaking in the sink, with the drips of Wolf-brand chili he always leaves between the coffee table and the couch, with the tribal junk he always tries to sneak up onto the walls of their next house. Like hes been doing for years, he imagines the headline on the Glacier Reporter back home: FORMER BASKETBALL STAR CANT EVEN HANG GRADUATION BLANKET IN OWN HOME. Never mind that its not because Peta draws the line at full-sized blankets, but more because he used it for padding around a free dishwasher he was bringing home a couple of years ago, and the dishwasher dumped over in the bed of the truck on the very last turn, spilled clotty rancid gunk directly into Hudsons Bay. Also never mind that he wasnt exactly a basketball star, half a lifetime ago. Its not like anybody but him reads this mental newspaper. And tomorrows headline? THE INDIAN WHO CLIMBED TOO HIGH. Full story on 12b. Which is to say: that spotlight in the ceilings not coming down to him, so hes going to have to go up to it. Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges it into the backyard, scrapes it through the sliding glass door hes promised to figure out a way to lock, and sets it up under this stupid little spotlight, the one that all itll do if it ever works is shine straight down on the apron of bricks in front of the fireplace that Peta says is a "hearth." White girls know the names of everything. Its kind of a joke between them, since its how they started out. Twenty-four-year-old Peta had been sitting at a picnic table over beside the big lodge in East Glacier, and twenty-six-year-old Lewis had finally got caught mowing the same strip of grass over and over, trying to see what she was sketching. "So youre, what, scalping it?" shed called out to him, full-on loud enough. "Um," Lewis had said back, letting the push mower die down. She explained it wasnt some big insult, it was just the term for cutting a lawn down low like he was doing. Lewis sat down opposite her, asked was she a backpacker or a summer girl or what, and shed liked his hair (it was long then), hed wanted to see all her tattoos (she was already maxed out), and within a couple weeks they were an every night kind of thing in her tent, and on the bench seat of Lewiss truck, and pretty much all over his cousins living room, at least until Lewis told her he was busting out, leaving the reservation, screw this place. How he knew Peta was a real girl was that she didnt look around and say, But its so pretty or How can you or--worst-- But this is your land. She took it more like a dare, Lewis thought at the time, and inside of three weeks they were a nighttime and a daytime kind of thing, living in her aunts basement down here in Great Falls, making a go of it. One thats still not over somehow, maybe because of good surprises like fixing the unfixable light. Lewis spiders up the shaky ladder and immediately has to jump it over about ten inches, to keep from getting whapped in the face by the fan hanging down on its four-foot brass pole. If hed checked The Book of Common Sense for stunts like this--if he even knew what shelf that particular volume might be on--he imagines page one would say that before going up the ladder, consider turning off all spinny things that can break your fool nose. Still, once hes up higher than the fan, when he can feel the tips of the blades trying to kiss his hipbone through his jeans, his fingertips to the slanted ceiling to keep steady, he does what anybody would: looks down through this midair whirlpool, each blade slicing through the same part of the room for so long now that ... that ... That theyve carved into something? Not just the past, but a past Lewis recognizes. Lying on her side through the blurry clock hands of the fan is a young cow elk. Lewis can tell shes young just from her body size--lack of filled-outness, really, and kind of just a general lankiness, a gangliness. Were he to climb down and still be able to see her with his feet on the floor, he knows that if he dug around in her mouth with a knife, there wouldnt be any ivory. Thats how young she still is. Because shes dead, too, she wouldnt care about the knife in her gums. And Lewis knows for sure shes dead. He knows because, ten years ago, he was the one who made her that way. Her hide is even still in the freezer in the garage, to make gloves from if Peta ever gets her tanning operation going again. The only real difference between the living room and the last time he saw this elk is that, ten years ago, she was on blood-misted snow. Now shes on a beige, kind of dingy carpet. Lewis leans over to get a different angle down through the fan, see her hindquarters, if that first gunshot is still there, but then he stops, makes himself come back to where he was. Her yellow right eye ... was it open before? When it blinks Lewis lets out a little yip, completely involuntary, and flinches back, lets go of the ladder to wheel his arms for balance, and knows in that instant of weightlessness that this is it, that hes already used all his get-out-of-the-graveyard-free coupons, that this time hes going down, that the cornermost brick of the "hearth" is already pointing up more than usual, to crack into the back of his head. The ladder tilts the opposite way, like it doesnt want to be involved in anything this ugly, and all of this is in the slowest possible motion for Lewis, his head snapping as many pictures as it can on the way down, like they can stack up under him, break his fall. One of those snapshots is Peta, standing at the light switch, a bag of groceries in her left arm. Because shes Peta, too, onetime college pole vaulter, high school triple-jump state champion, compulsive sprinter even now when she can make time, because shes Peta , whos never known a single moment of indecision in her whole life, in the next snapshot shes already dropping that bag of groceries that was going to be dinner, and shes somehow shriking across the living room not really to catch Lewis, that wouldnt do any good, but to slam him hard with her shoulder on his way down, direct him away from this certain death hes falling onto. Her running tackle crashes him into the wall with enough force to shake the window in its frame, enough force to send the ceiling fan wobbling on its long pole, and an instant later shes on her knees, her fingertips tracing Lewiss face, his collarbones, and then shes screaming that hes stupid, hes so, so stupid , she cant lose him, hes got to be more careful, hes got to start caring about himself, hes got to start making better decisions, please please please . At the end shes hitting him in the chest with the sides of her fists, real hits that really hurt. Lewis pulls her to him and shes crying now, her heart beating hard enough for her and Lewis both. Raining down over the two of them now--Lewis almost smiles, seeing it--is the finest washed-out brown-grey dust from the fan, which Lewis must have hit with his hand on the way down. The dust is like ash, is like confectioners sugar if confectioners sugar were made from rubbed-off human skin. It dissolves against Lewiss lips, disappears against the wet of his open eyes. And there are no elk in the living room with them, though he cranes his head up over Peta to be sure. There are no elk because that elk couldnt have been here, he tells himself. Not this far from the reservation. It was just his guilty mind, slipping back when he wasnt paying enough attention. "Hey, look," he says to the top of Petas blond head. She rouses slowly, turn Details ISBN1982136464 Author Stephen Graham Jones Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1982136464 ISBN-13 9781982136468 Format Paperback Pages 336 Publication Date 2021-01-26 Short Title The Only Good Indians Subtitle A Novel UK Release Date 2021-01-26 DEWEY 813.54 Audience General Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2021-01-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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