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1990 Winner of the Mildren P. Nilon Award for Minority Fiction
In Trigger Dance, her first collection of stories, Diane Glancy takes us to uneasy places where both the environment and the characters are at risk, where even the animals grieve. Sometimes the author's voice, sometimes the voices of the characters, tell us about their migrations, symbolic or literal. Diane Glancy's characters walk in two worlds and try to build a middle ground between white and native cultures. They are the offspring of those who survived the Trail of Tears. Some of the young men dance at powwows in tune with the dead. Filo and Parnetta buy a fridge at the Hardware Store on Muskogee Street, in Tahleqah, Oklahoma. Farther west, near Chickasha, Keyo can't read, while Joseph Sink, an Indian hermit, learns a word a day. Anna America remembers her shortcomings as a mother and her hard life as she waits in the Northeastern Cherokee County Shelter for her wings to unfold so she can leave this earth. In the title story, Roan mourns the fact that human beings have the power to destroy the earth. He's astonished that creation and cremation could be so closely linked. Even his father, when he feels death approach, demands to be cremated because "it's autumn in outer space." Roan's final vision in the sweat lodge is of the air red as leaves. He admonishes his people to be strong and responsible, to acknowledge that life is a sizeable endeavor. it.
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Steven Dong
reviewed Trigger Dance on February 01, 2013
Trigger Dance
My review published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2002:
The Collected Stories
of Joseph Roth
By Joseph Roth;
translated by
W.W. NORTON & COMPANY; 281 PAGES; $27.95
It might not be immediately clear to some readers whether Austrian novelist Joseph Roth, author of the acclaimed "The Radetzky March," really deserves this clear-the-archives collection of nearly all his short fiction, gathered in English for the first time. The man died in Paris way back in 1939, after all, and has never been included among the greats of 20th century European literature.
But for anyone with a passion for great writing, it's well worth sorting through the uneven offerings presented here for a glimpse of a tremendous talent finding itself -- and also of a long-gone world of Jewish villages late in the Hapsburg Empire. Born in 1894 in Galicia (now western Ukraine), Roth served in World War I, studied in Vienna and made his name as a newspaper journalist for Germany's Frankfurter Zeitung.
What is amazing about Roth's short stories, though, is not their place in history, but his sense of fun and love of his characters. It takes love to craft someone as thoroughly awful as the thin-lipped, book-devouring, empty soul at the center of "The Honors Student," or as pathetic as the woman in "Barbara," whose dreary life of sacrifice for her only son ends up meaning nothing to the practical-minded son himself.
Roth writes with the powerfully descriptive vividness of Babel, as when he describes the "slim white hands" of a train-wreck survivor lying still, atop her mink coat, like "two beautiful corpses." But he also loves to hop from one good-naturedly absurd idea to another, pursuing a light satire that brings to mind Garcia Marquez or Heller. "Describe the sea to me!" a coral dealer demands in "The Leviathan."
" 'It's full of water,' said the sailor Komrower.' " Badda-badda-bing, we can almost hear. But as always, Roth uses his light touch to bring alive the inner longing of this coral dealer, one of many Roth characters who yearn to break out of the confines of their lives. Those longings are part of a human landscape that is anything but dated or dusty, but often haunting and always lively and moving.
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