The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 11, 1995 - 11 ittle' book a big emotional triumph Eizabeth Lucas y Arts Writer Sometimes, far into the evening, n and Lyle wouldspeak about Pick. ually, gently, they allowed them- ies to remember him. They drew past things that Jackie and I had er heard, that had been kept apart l down. We sat and listened, shar- the stories told in an unrushed but ady beat between these two men..." 'hese lines, from the conclusion of vid Treuer's first novel, "Little," ne close to capturing the essence he book. The work is about two tilies on an Ojibwa reservation in nesota, and the stories they tell or 't tell. For Treuer, a University Treuergrew uponareservationsimi- lar to the one described in "Little," and attended Princeton as a music theory and composition major. He happened to take a creative writing class, and then began to write this novel. "Writing was always within the known universe for me," Treuer said, noting that his father and a friend's father are writers. "It wasn't inconceiv- able, but it wasn't some life-long goal. It just kind of happened." Appropriately, this book about re- membering the past began through the author's doing that very thing. Before writing the book, Treuer explained, "I started thinking about those stories I heard when I wasyounger, about things thathappenedto somerelatives ofmine and how they had no way to talk about them but to talk around them." "All the talk and the silence, the se- crets kept or known gradually changed shape. They acquired new habits and grew beyond what Poverty and the res- ervation had previously allowed..." The ideas of talk and silence are probably most evident in the narration of "Little," which is told through the shifting viewpoints of all the charac- ters. Details that at first don't make sense are gradually revealed; one char- acter may allude to an event, and an- other may explain it later in the novel. esis with stories from his child- Id. I remember being a kid and hearing hese stories told around me, but not e, because stories are for adults," uer said. "I remember listening to , not making any sense of them, knowing something important was The title character, a young, mute Ojibwa boy, also suggests the idea of things left unsaid. "In later years all of us at Poverty dressed up our stories about Little, gave them wings, and let them go. Andsince there was so little to tell, they took off, circled higher, and like the dandelions, never touched the ground again..." Treuer also defined "Little" as "a novel that both fits into and chal- lenges the genre of Native American literature." He explained: "Up until recently, writing about native people has done two things. It's always posed this unbroken, innate connection be- tween native people and nature, and it's always talked about nativeness as being equal to spirituality. Those are two shortcuts and two crutches, which I hate." With the publication of "Little," Treuer hopes to bring another dimen- sion to this genre. "I'm not pretend- ing to have a handle on what it means to be Indian. And this book isn't a guide or a dictionary to what it is - it doesn't attemptto pose what reality is for Indian people. But I hope to com- plicate what people think native real- ity is. I see my project as remedial, in a sense. I'm showing that there are alternate realities out there that haven't been explored." The Geraldine Fibbers are truly great The Geraldine Fibbers are one of the saddest and loudest of the alternative country rock bands out there today. Influenced as much by the Meat Puppets and X as Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline, Carla Bozulich and the rest of the Fibbers create great, If troubled music on their debut album "Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home."Sawing violins and churning guitars mix with alternately cooing and harsh vocals on tracks like "Lilybeile," "The Small Song" and "A Song About Walls." The Fibbers' debut import EP is equally impressive, with a compelling cover of the hard-luck classic "Fancy," along with tracks like "Marmalade" and "Get Thee Gone," which made it to "Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home." Their live shows are an incredible outpouring of energy and emotion; the full power of the Fibbers' work reveals itself at their concerts. Lucky for you, the Geraldine Fibbers play the Shelter (underneath St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit) tonight. Call (313) 961-MELT for more information. No lie - the Fibbers are great. 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