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Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Eric G Dove
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Summary

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 listeners a spine-tingling Native American horror novella.

Walking through his own house at night, a 15-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.

©2017 Stephen Graham Jones (P)2017 Journalstone Publishing

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Not what I was expecting

Perhaps I took the blurb too literally, but I might have enjoyed the novella more if I hadn't been led to expect a quite different story. I might relisten some time in the future, and maybe increase the star rating.
I get annoyed by certain self-righteous types who berate you for cultural appropriation if you wear a sombrero on a hot day, or try to shame you because you haven't read enough books by People Of Colour or you don't have enough trans friends. So I was amused that the protagonist of this novella refers to himself and his people as "Indian" throughout, rather than Native American. I think the author would have been castigated for this if he were not himself a member of that particular ethnic group.
One of the most interesting aspects of the listen I found was the voice - both in the sense of the writing and the narrator's delivery. The perspective is a child's, but remembered as an adult, and the description that kept coming to mind was "simple". I wasn't happy with the word until I was able to clarify that I didn't mean it in the sense of naive or unintelligent. Rather, it is simple in the sense of uncluttered.
In conclusion, not a bad couple of hours, but try to approach it with a more open mind than I did.

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