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Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Calling for a Blanket Dance employs one of my (recent) favorite literary βtechniquesβ, which consists in using the short-story format to tell an overarching story. A few weeks before reading this I read Morgan Taltyβs Night of the Living Rez, which also used the short-story format to tell a young manβs coming-of-age. Unlike that title,…
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