Heard about this book after seeing a mention on a FB music group that Jason Isbell had a part in an upcoming Scorsese/DeNiro/DeCaprio film which was going to be based on the book.
Picked it up and it was a pretty good read, not least because it’s set in Oklahoma but talks about a lot of things that are relevant to life in Saskatchewan – poor treatment of Indigenous people, oil rights (and related greed), and even the “wild west” mentality that still exists in some ways, even one hundred years after the events in the book.
I even got to give it a plug on local news radio this summer. (fast forward to the eight minutes remaining mark.)
[2023-10-24 Edit: The movie is out now and getting criticism for its depiction of and normalization of violence against Indigenous people.]
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