Indigenous Beasts
Author: Nathan Sellyn
Published: 2006
About Indigenous Beasts: Collection of fourteen short stories.
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Stories
- Cleaning Up
- The Helmet
- A Bad Lake for Fishing
- Home Movies
- Here Be Monsters
- A Kind of Dignity
- Indigenous Beasts
- You Want to Win
- Ma Belle
- Such Sights to Show You
- Going Through Customs
- A Routine to These Things
- Animals
- The Basics of the Species
Awards
- 2007 – Danuta Gleed Literary Award – Winner
- 2007 – ReLit Awards: Short Fiction – Shortlisted
Review of Indigenous Beasts
Dark, often violent, sometimes disturbing. I enjoyed the book as a whole, some stories more than others obviously. Some of the standouts for me:
In "Here Be Monsters", a man wants revenge for the death of a young woman. This story disturbed me the most. It wasn't the expected violence; it was the bit about the spider at the end. Still makes me shudder.
In "A Kind of Dignity", two Greek restaurant owners share their memories of one of the greatest days of their lives. I thought the dialogue in this story was terrific and it felt very real.
In "Going Through Customs", a man helps a young boy get across the border into Canada. The ending wasn't entirely unexpected but it was still unsettling.
Reviewed by LMB on 31 July 2008.
More Reviews
- ‘What RUF beast?’ Fiona Foster, Globe and Mail, 24 March 2006
- “The stories are bloody and real, yes; they could also, on occasion, have used some more time in the fire.”
Added 31 July 2008.
Updated 12 October 2008.
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