P.S. House Made of Dawn, (Paperback)

from erikasolberg770

It's hard to critique this because it was such a groundbreaking work. Parts of it are beautiful but other parts are unnecessarily fuzzy -- the pov, style-wise, seems very much of its period. Fails in depictions of women, sadly. But the most important parts, presenting a Native American story, cre...

from curls_99

N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn provides an interesting look into the struggles Native Americans who come from reservations to find identity. He follows the life of a young man named Abel who has returned to his reservation in New Mexico after fighting in World War II. He has been deeply af...

from Schmerguls

1097 House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (read 27 Nov 1970) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1969) This is a novel by an Indian about an Indian who leaves the reservation, disintegrates, and then returns to it. It is full of writing that sounds like "Creative Writing" and has some true-sounding stu...

from YAbookfest

House Made of Dawn was a landmark book when written in 1966, offering insight into the experiences of Native Americans in the mid-20th century. It is the story of Abel, who grows up in a tiny village on the Kiowa reservation in the southwest, where life is ruled by ancient traditions and the natu...

from quondame

This is a book that must be read deliberately, and seems as if over half the pages were ripped from a larger tome and only about a quarter of what was removed was returned in a collage of patches through the remainder. There is poetry and pain and dislocation. The war traumatized young man is by ...