While in the midst of reading Louise Erdrich's The Sentence, I stopped on page 186 of the book and worked on this WWW page for the 13 "Short Perfect Novels" she puts in a list in her book ( it wasn't until I reached the concluding 7 pages of the book that I realized another post would be required to list the suggested book lists to enhance one's understanding of the American Indians living in what was once their country of origin ):
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
The All of It by Jeannette Haien
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
First Love by Ivan Turgenve
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai
As always, ENJOY!
