A Splendid Indian
The Broke Hat Chronicles
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A Splendid Indian
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Late one August, Samson, a laconic sixteen-year-old, is spending the summer at the general store, intent on finding his first girlfriend, when his father sends him to retrieve a stolen rowboat. Out on the lake, he meets a talking sturgeon who claims they are ancient lovers. When Samson refuses her, she tells him of a long-ago decision that robbed the men in his line of a crucial inheritance: the power of eloquent speech. To reclaim the long-lost status of a Stexw t'u7 áma ku úcwalmicw—a Splendid Indian—Samson must decide whether to love her, or remain forever at a loss for words.
From there, the mythic, transformational, intergenerational story of Broke Hat moves backward in time: a boy and his poetry-reciting rez dog stand guard against the "Indian killers" he believes haunt the gas station; a rooster rallies the hens and recruits the crows for revolt against the axe-wielding thick-legged ones; a lesbian couple en route to an Elvis impersonation competition pick up a rodeo cowboy on the run from a clown that seems half ghost, half traumatic memory; a bootlegger's six-year-old son begins hearing angels; and a young woman burdened with an excess of beauty learns hard lessons about life, death, sex and wolves on her journey to the city and back.
Told in reverse chronology and blending realism with myth, the comic with the surreal, A Splendid Indian offers a singular vision of kinship, inheritance, language and desire.
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Reviews
“A Splendid Indian: The Broke Hat Chronicles will have you belly laughing one moment and holding your breath the next. As soon as you finish this book, you’ll want to start it again.” —Jessica Johns, author of Bad Cree
“These strange and wonderful tales are woven together by a born storyteller, with a singular, powerful voice that reaches new depths for fiction in this country. . . . A stunning debut.” —Kevin Hardcastle, author of County Road Six
“With deft wit and incisive humour, Alynna Wynter Hopkins starts us off with a brand-new Stetson and by the end of it we’ve got ourselves a Broken Hat. . . . These stories haunt the reader in a way that makes you appreciate every sunset and the idea of what family and community actually means.” —Conor Kerr, author of Prairie Edge
“A witty, sparkling debut about the power of transformation. Alynna Wynter Hopkins is a superbly talented writer, and I can’t recommend this collection highly enough. It’s a knockout.” —Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean and Consent
“Every few years a book comes out that obliterates the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Alynna Wynter Hopkins’ A Splendid Indian is an extraordinary book that possesses a grand, startling vision. Hopkins writes with merciless beauty and sharp humour . . . An absolutely beautiful book.” —John Vigna, author of No Man’s Land and Bull Head
“These strange and wonderful tales are woven together by a born storyteller, with a singular, powerful voice that reaches new depths for fiction in this country. . . . A stunning debut.” —Kevin Hardcastle, author of County Road Six
“With deft wit and incisive humour, Alynna Wynter Hopkins starts us off with a brand-new Stetson and by the end of it we’ve got ourselves a Broken Hat. . . . These stories haunt the reader in a way that makes you appreciate every sunset and the idea of what family and community actually means.” —Conor Kerr, author of Prairie Edge
“A witty, sparkling debut about the power of transformation. Alynna Wynter Hopkins is a superbly talented writer, and I can’t recommend this collection highly enough. It’s a knockout.” —Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean and Consent
“Every few years a book comes out that obliterates the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Alynna Wynter Hopkins’ A Splendid Indian is an extraordinary book that possesses a grand, startling vision. Hopkins writes with merciless beauty and sharp humour . . . An absolutely beautiful book.” —John Vigna, author of No Man’s Land and Bull Head
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