Back on the Reservation

It was a hit! Everyone who came to book club last night loved Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues, the novel I read for the state of Washington for the 2009 blog theme. We had great discussions on the tension between alienation and assimilation and the need to preserve cultural heritage without demonizing the majority. We talked about how he advances plot seamlessly using dialogue and how much more readily we could suspend disbelief for the magical realism in this story as opposed to A Hundred Years of Solitude. I think we have tempted another person to join our group after she "audited" the get together last night. And everyone loved the Christmas cookies and went home with doggie bags. Here's hoping our selections for 2011 are all as rich.