Night of the Living Rez: Stories

"Hair frozen in snow. A jar of teeth. A highway carpeted with caterpillars. These are just a handful of the indelible images that Morgan Talty conjures in his debut linked short-story collection set on the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Night of the Living Rez jumps back and forth in time, tracing the decisions that have shaped a boy named David, from scheming to steal root clubs to climbing out a window with his sister’s baby in his arms. Talty’s book haunted and thrilled me in its raw explorations of inheritance, grief and survival, imbued with humor and warmth."