Post #2

Okay- An icky old man who has a son half of Fiction’s age is NOT supposed to do the dirty with her! I am at a loss. Why does a girl who seems to have nothing to lose since she is already at the, excuse my pun, “at the bottom of the totem pole” date a man much older than her? He has a son who is twelve! She is twenty three! The line that evokes my gag reflex is “let me see if you measure up to your name?” I do not understand the character of Fiction. She is living on a reservation where no one wants her, he father doesn’t recognize her, and yet she stays. She then decides to get involved in a way older man with a son. In our culture you see this often (and it still evokes my gag reflexes), usually an older man gets caught like a helpless fish by a woman ready to devour him. But these women are not twenty three; I wonder if this is something that happens on reservations? Does this story have anything to do with Bud not recognizing Fiction so she goes to the next father figure she has available? With so many other plots and stories going on in this book, why does Eric Gansworth include this sideline story? I have the feeling that they will not work out in the end and that by the end of the book something more will have developed between Big Red and Fiction. I guess we’ll have to stay tuned folks…