Mapping the Interior
"Brilliant." --The New York Times
Mapping the Interior is a horrifying, inward-looking novella from Stephen Graham Jones that Paul Tremblay calls "emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant." Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella. Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.BUY THE BOOK
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I don't know if I was just too tired or just not in the right mood or what happened, but I didn't feel much of anything about this. It wasn't the writing; I really like Jones' writing. I liked [b:Night of the Mannequins|49246963|Night of the Mannequins|Stephen Graham Jones|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576787867l/49246963._SY75_.jpg|74693341] and nearly loved [b:The Only Good Indians|52180399|The Only Good Indians|Stephen Graham Jones|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1601545259l/52180399._SY75_.jpg|71431671]. I'm thinking I prefer his longer works to his shorter ones.
There isn't a lot to say about this that wouldn't spoil it, so I'm going to leave it at my brief opinion and rating. At the root of this story, there is a lot of sadness if I stop to think about it long enough. I wish it would have packed enough of a punch for me to have wanted to really reflect on it. Maybe if I did that I would understand it more, too. There is so much I couldn't or didn't understand. I couldn't get inside Junior's head even though that's where we seemed to be most of the time. This left me feeling pretty disconnected.
2.5 Rounded to 3 Stars
There isn't a lot to say about this that wouldn't spoil it, so I'm going to leave it at my brief opinion and rating. At the root of this story, there is a lot of sadness if I stop to think about it long enough. I wish it would have packed enough of a punch for me to have wanted to really reflect on it. Maybe if I did that I would understand it more, too. There is so much I couldn't or didn't understand. I couldn't get inside Junior's head even though that's where we seemed to be most of the time. This left me feeling pretty disconnected.
2.5 Rounded to 3 Stars
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