Bleed into Me

Bleed Into Me is a collection of short stories by Stephen Graham Jones and is part of Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives.[1]

Bleed Into Me
First Edition Cover
AuthorStephen Graham Jones
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
Publication date
September 1, 2005
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages152 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN0-8032-2605-5 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded byThe Bird is Gone: A Manifesto 
Followed byDemon Theory 

Synopsis

The book collects 17 short stories by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones:

  • "Halloween"
  • "Venison"
  • "Captivity Narrative 109"
  • "To Run Without Falling"
  • "Episode 43: Incest"
  • "Nobody Knows This"
  • "Bile"
  • "Filius Nervosus"
  • "Last Success"
  • "Conquistadors"
  • "These are the Names I Know"
  • "The Fear of Jumping"
  • "Bleed Into Me"
  • "Carbon"
  • "Every Night Was Halloween"
  • "Discovering America"

Reception

Barbara J. Cook reviewed Bleed into Me for Studies in American Indian Literatures, noting that "In this collection of short stories, Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet) captures what it often means to be Indian in the twenty-first century."[2] Amelia Gray, reviewing for Southwestern American Literature, stated that much of the violence in the collection's stories was "understated to the point of soundlessness", but that in "Captivity Narrative 109" the "narrative begins to battle with itself" as "Aiche's apathy borders on comic".[3]

Awards

The novel won the following awards:

  • Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award: For Fiction
  • Finalist for the Texas Writers League Violet Crown Award

Further reading

References
  1. "Bleed into Me". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  2. Cook, Barbara J. (2008). "Review of Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 20 (1): 79–81. ISSN 0730-3238.
  3. Gray, Amelia (2005-09-22). "Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories". Southwestern American Literature. 31 (1): 76–79.


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