10. The best book I read in 2012. It was a 2009 Pullitzer Finalist.
The topic didn't seem very promising: the history of several characters in a first nations reserve in the 70's, but oh, boy was this book intense!
Each of the stories is engaging on itself, but the wordcrafting is superb, anecdotes of one character take another dimension when telling someone else's story later on the book. And the way it jumps from comedy, to drama, getting close to magic realism and horror at times it is very life like, those genres don't seem out of place, because life itself contains all those elements. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
Favourite scenes:
the little girl at religious school and the nun nicknamed godzilla; the tales form the grnadfather - the hanging; the sex driven preacher that gets struck by lightning; the faked kidnapping; the violin in the river and used to reform a thief; the psychology student reading Anais Nin and falling in love with a patient; the colonization of a patch of land during the winter.
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