House Made Of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Read October 2008
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written Saturnday, December 6th, 2008
This was the first thing I attempted reading upon returning to the Midwest from my weeklong vacation in Kauai, Hawaii. My mind was still not in the Midwest, but rather was busy for about three weeks trying to process all the things I experienced out there. So that made it pretty hard to concentrate on anything and as a result I read this book without really reading it. It didn't penetrate into me even a little bit. No understanding whatsoever. It's impossible to say now whether that was really because of my mindset at the time of the reading or because this book maybe sucked a little bit. No way of knowing.
It won a Pulitzer Prize, so it couldn't have been too bad. But then, I've had some pretty rotten experiences with Pulitzer Prize winners as of late.
I was expecting more awesomeness like a cross between The Hiawatha by David Treuer and The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. It was neither. Or, as I said before, maybe I just chose the worst possible moment in my life to try to read a book and this was just the sorry victim. It will have to remain an unsolved mystery. And I'm okay with that.
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