Riding the Trail of Tears (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803239265)

Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Philip K. Dick. However you might want to put it, this is Native American fiction in a whole new world. A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there. When several tourists lose consciousness inside the ride, employees and customers at the compound come to believe, naturally, that a terrorist attack is imminent.
Little does Tallulah know that Cherokee Little People have taken up residence in the virtual world and fully intend to change the ride's programming to suit their own point of view. Told by a narrator who knows all but can hardly be trusted, in a story reflecting generations of experience while recalling the events in a single day of Tallulah's life, this funny and poignant tale revises American history even as it offers a new way of thinking, both virtual and very real, about the past for both Native Americans and their Anglo counterparts.

Author: Blake M. Hausman
ISBN-10: 0803239262
ISBN-13: 9780803239265
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2011 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2011
Library Journal 02/15/2011 pg. 99