Now I know the answer: Stephen Graham Jones.'Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling 'THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS is a masterpiece. Ive wondered who would write a worthy heir to Peter Straubs Ghost Story. Holding the sweat is a way for Gabe and Cass to try to be a more respectable part of their community, though they know that they are primarily serving as an example of who not to be for Nathan Yellow Tail. The Only Good Indians is a triumph somehow it’s a great story and also a meditation on stories. In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. Still, the desire to be “Good Indians” colors their behavior and self-concept: Lewis fears that abandoning the reservation and marrying a white woman has disgraced his ancestors and furthered the diminishment of the tribe’s bloodline Gabe’s struggles with alcohol, violent outbursts, and being a bad father linger in him Cass is finally settling down, but fears what others think since he is dating a Crow woman, a tribe that was rivals and sometimes outright enemies with the Blackfeet. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, ones place in the world, whats right and whats wrong. As such, they freely use the term “Indian” to describe themselves or their practices, knowing full well its racist origins and deploying it with a sense of irony: They understand the tension between the authenticity of their tribal customs and their own half-considered version of it that often resembles play-acting.
The three main adult characters in the novel-Lewis, Gabe, and Cass-each struggle with their ancestral heritage and their role in Blackfoot culture, which they typically treat with ironic distance or outright mockery of the rules and customs of their culture as a way of coping with the cultural burden.
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