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The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto
Author(s): Stephen Graham Jones (Author)
- Publisher: University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1573661090
- ISBN-13: 9781573661096
Book Description
A lost pipe holds the power to rewrite a nation.
Cleverly blending alternate history, mystery, and indigenous resurgence, Stephen Graham Jones’s The Bird Is Gone unfolds in a transformed Great Plains where a visionary conservation act has made the land truly “Indian again.” Fourteen years later, a motley crew led by LP Deal converges in a bowling alley within Indian Territories, on a quest for a forgotten treaty pipe—sealed in a locker and flushed into oblivion—that could return all of America to Indigenous hands. Surreal, suspenseful, and richly original, this manifesto of resistance challenges readers to reconsider power, history, and the stakes of reclaiming a stolen world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
–Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
“For a while now I have felt that we Native American writers (and I most certainly include myself in the “we”) keep writing about the same damn things. Stephen Jones writes with a whole new aesthetic and moral sense. He doesn’t sound like any of the rest of us, and I love that.”
–Sherman Alexie, author of
“In
The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones follows his brilliant first novel, The Fast Red Road, with another work of pure originality and quirky brilliance. No unintended clichés or stereotypes here. With Vizenor-like deftness and completely unexpected moves, Jones is taking Native American fiction in a new, necessary direction. We see a literature coming of age in these pages.”–Louis Owens, author of Nightland
