A review by bennyandthejets420
Winter in the Blood by James Welch

4.0

Didn't quite snap together for me until the end, wherein the sort of rambling narrative intercut with crucial backstory flashbacks 'suddenly reveals itself to be a cyclical story of grief and acceptance. The prose relies on spare parataxis and very quick almost insight-like flashes of nature description. Can recall Hemingway or McCarthy without suggesting any sense of mimicry. Love how the landscape description shifts between commenting directly and indirectly on the inner life of the characters without being a direct one to one correspondence. Very strong, condensed stuff!