Gullstruck Island - Blog Posts

“we shall take everything they do to us and make it something else”

“hope started to beat its angry little drum in hathin’s chest again”

god. i know children are more unflappable about some types of horror elements and white american kids aren’t expected to have much familiarity with the topic, but i can’t believe some of the descriptions of collective punishment of indigenous ppl that i read in gullstruck island at eleven years old. no wonder the specter of this book has hung over me since grade school. this is a cautionary remark but also something positive i am saying about the book.