The short paragraphs are loaded with personality and information. Pretty soon, there won’t be no point in callin it by its name. You gotta walk some ways out now to fill a bucket. Even the spring that feeds the lake’s startin to run dry. We ain’t had a drop of rain fer near six months now. The kinda white heat day when you can hear th’earth crack. So hot an so dry that all I can taste in my mouth is dust. The amplified language shapes the novel’s first-person narrator, Saba, as well as the distinctive setting.Īfter a short, poetical preface (introducing Saba and her family’s anecdotal history), the story begins: Young’s vernacular transcends the invention of a fictional vocabulary 1. Initially disarming, the stylized language quickly becomes exciting, fresh and, at times, lyrical. Moira Young’s Blood Red Road (Dust Land Series #1) is the first YA novel I read with a strong narrative dialect.
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