“You don’t know about the Windigo? You’ve lived in this country all your life and you don’t know about the Windigo? He shook his head as if that were a dreadful thing."
One reviewer liked these quotes which represent the cross-cultural view point:
Traditionally the Anishinaabe were a quiet people. Before the whites came, they lived in the silence of great woods and more often than not, the voices they heard were not human. The wind spoke. The water sang. All sounds had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.
I read the book because the author's beautiful coming of age novel, Ordinary Grace. Considering this was the first of 16 novels with the character and setting, I assume Mr Kreuger is pretty successful. Many reviews tend to uphold that idea, most praise his plot development and complex characters.
In 2005 and 2006, Krueger won back to back Anthony Awards for best novel - a feat only matched by one other writer since the award's inception.
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