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This Town Sleeps : a Novel by Dennis E Staples; Counterpoint (Berkeley) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Elegant and gritty, angry and funny. Staples's work is emotional without being sentimental. Dennis unmakes something in us, then remakes it, a quilt of characters that embody this town, this place, which sleeps but doesn't dream, or it is all a dream we want to wake up from with its characters." ?Tommy Orange, author of There, There Set on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, This Town Sleeps explores the many ways history, culture, landscape, and lineage shape our lives, our understanding of the world we inhabit, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of it all. On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man. While Marion is far more open about his sexuality, neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies. Then one night, while roaming the dark streets of Geshig, Marion unknowingly brings to life the spirit of a dog from beneath the elementary school playground. The mysterious revenant leads him

Who reads This Town Sleeps : a Novel?

Author

Dennis E Staples; Counterpoint (Berkeley)

Publisher

Counterpoint Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781640092846

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (134 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14