A review by gloweyyyy
Winter in the Blood by James Welch

emotional reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

From introduction by Louise Erdrich: “The consciousness, the eye, the beholder and observer, is present and absent. His inner life is revealed through what he chooses to notice. Still, because Welch rarely allows his protagonist to show an emotional reaction to what occurs in his life, this novel is sometimes misunderstood as a work about alienation. To me, the absence of personal affect in the narrator is more about the modesty of his despair. 

To refuse to feel is to refuse to be a victim, it is true. But in the end, all you really own is your indifference.”