Ishan Mukherjee’s Reviews > There There > Status Update

Lots of sadness (porn) in the introductory Octavia chapter: her dad gets shot at for stealing plants from someone's garden, her friend Manny's dad assaults his wife (Manny nearly kills him; he also steals cars), and Octavia's mom and brother are killed in a car accident. I get that "the Native American experience is full of pathos" is part of the point, but man.