Telling Reality
Occasionally, a book stumbles in to my To-Be-Read pile. Someone recommends it to me, or I see in an article, or it's new at the library. For one reason or another, I start reading it, though there are hundreds of other books I could be reading instead. Then this book that has appeared out of the ether grabs me by the collar and doesn't let go until I read the last page, when it simply lingers in my mind, filtering my thoughts and memories. Not many books do this. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston. Now I can add to the stack: Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr. As a recent addition to the land of the Hoosiers, I consider it a responsibility to find out more about this land and its people. At first glance, they seem much like Kansans or Nebraskans. But Hoosiers are their own breed, for better or for worse. So, of course, the title of this book jumped out at me. While Indiana has some strange town names