{"id":28707,"date":"2021-03-29T17:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=28707"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:47:26","slug":"sterling-holywhitemountain-featherweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2021\/03\/29\/sterling-holywhitemountain-featherweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling HolyWhiteMountain: “Featherweight”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Featherweight”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Sterling HolyWhiteMountain<\/span>
\nfrom the April 5, 2021 issue of The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"I<\/span> don’t know the work of Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, but I’m looking forward to trying it out. Googling him (so please do let me know if there is more information I’m missing), it appears he currently teaches at Stanford after getting his MFA from the University of Iowa, and that he is working on a story collection. I don’t see any information about any other books, though it appears some of his work has appeared in volumes 1 and 2 of\u00a0Off the Path: An Anthology of 21st Century American Indian and Indigenous Writers<\/em>,\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>, and elsewhere. In his interview with\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em> he says he’s working what he thinks is two novels.<\/p>\n

Here is how “Featherweight” begins:<\/p>\n

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When I first met my love, I had been off my reservation for a little more than a year. I had become acculturated, we\u2019ll say, to university life — and willingly! I wanted to know what larger America was all about. I took on the aspect of a young dog; everything was new to me, I had my nose up everyone\u2019s ass. First there was Lana, then Julie, then . . . a few other names I can\u2019t remember, and then there was Barbara. That should have been the name of a grandmother, but in fact it belonged to a sweet thing who liked to call me her favorite indian toy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So let’s go get to know HolyWhiteMountain’s work together! Please leave your thoughts below. I look forward to reading them and sharing my own when I have read the story in its entirety.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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