Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

eBook - 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, American Academy of Arts & Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, The New England Book Award, and the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree A Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Chautauqua Prize 2023, and Barnes & Noble Discover Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, Esquire, Oprah Daily, and more Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talt...y—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and a community... more