The Only Good Indians
Reader Score
81%
81% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
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2021 The New York Times Best Seller
Winner:Alex Award -Adult/For Young Adults (2021)
Winner:Mark Twain American Voice In Literature Award -Fiction (2021)
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 2020's 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
- Publish Date: Jan 26th, 2021
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.62lb
- EAN: 9781982136468
- Categories: • Indigenous - General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle• Thrillers - Supernatural• Horror - General
About the Author
Jones, Stephen Graham: - Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a 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.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"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. It's 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. I'll 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