James Welch
Winter in the Blood
New York: Penguin Books, 1974.
On the surface, this is a story of a Blackfoot Indian,
sleepwalking through his life, tormented by memories and visions,
in search of a connection to his heritage. Far deeper, it is a
personal struggle for identity and a quest for relationship.
Welch's language is at once blunt and poetic, and the pictures it
conjures are dreamlike and disquieting.
