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Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same (2009)

by Mattox Roesch(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1932961879 (ISBN13: 9781932961874)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Unbridled Books

review 1: Roesch does a great job writing about Unalakleet, a fishing village on Norton Sound and off the road system in Alaska where life goes on at a different pace. He takes the main character from LA gang member to a village of 700 that's a three hour flight north of Anchorage where everyone knows each other and everyone has many relatives. There are problems, and everyone in the village knows what they are even though they may not understand why or the history behind the problems... alcoholism, mental health breakdown, pregnancy and just growing up and getting through adolescence. This book should be required reading for nurses, doctors, teachers and anyone planning on working or living in a village. The characters are real in their struggles and are sincere and ho... morenest. Great read.
review 2: Teenage LA gangsta gets uprooted by his divorced mother, who moves the two of them back to the tiny native fishing village in coastal Alaska where she's from. No plot surprises here -- just the opposite, because the writer tells you the plot punch lines before setting up how you get there. The story is in the journey, not the climactic life events recounted in the book. I've not encountered this style of story-telling before, but found it fascinating. Roesch also excels in conveying the experience of living in the Alaskan village. less

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