My Good Man Audiobook Libro.fm

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Its a rare book that can make the triedandtrue genre of the comingofage novel seem novel There are the standard markers of the heros journeythe trials the dark night of the soul the lesson learned From Printz Honor author Eric Gansworth comes My Good Man a literary tourdeforce sure to turn the genre on its headBrian a 20something reporter on the Niagara Cascade City Desk is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that homogenize his communitythe nearby Tuscarora reservation But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim the brother of Brians mothers late boyfriend in the hospital Brian must pick up the threads of a life that hes abandonedThe resulting narrative takes us through Brians childhood and sliceoflife stories on the reservation in Gansworths signature blend of crystal sharp heartfelt literary realist proseBut perhaps more importantly it takes us through Brians attempt to balance his feet between Haudenosaunee and American life between the version of his story that would prize the individual over all else and the version of himself that depends on the entire communitys survival