How a people die: A novel

by Alan Fry

Book Overview

It's Saturday morning on the Kwasi Reserve. The citizens are red-eyed and bleary, their shabby houses littered with empty bottles. But this Saturday is different. Last night while her parents partied,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773770526
• ISBN13: 9780773770522
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Paperjacks
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

heartbreaking but realistic

This book details how and why a child dies, but in the weaving of the story, it explains the impact of widespread alcoholism on a culture. Not a fun or easy read but a good one. This gives insight into why the problems exist on the reserve systems, why they are harming the very people they hoped to help and preserve and what should be considered in any rational approach to this problem. It is sympathetic to the problems faced by native people trying to escape the negative aspects of alcohol in a culture without losing their cultural heritage and all the good things that go along with being native.