5/20/2023 0 Comments River Thieves by Michael CrummeyAs in the story, the Beothuk used red ochre to paint their bodies and also their houses, canoes and weapons, and we now know they were referred to as the Red Indians. They were part of migrating tribes from Labrador. River Thieves is also in that genre, dealing with the Beothuk, a nomadic, hunter-gathering native people that may have formed as a cultural group around 1500. All are based on specific historical incidents. At a stretch is Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi. We of course have had several other books in this genre, including The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, dealing with parts of Indonesia, and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. The River Thieves under review is in the category of historical fiction, and as I will discuss, a biography. But Diane insisted that I abide by the rules and report on the marvelous poetic narrative writing of Michael Crummey. I suggest we send some members of this tribe recently elected to Congress to Newfoundland without medical insurance and let them fight among themselves, preferably with guns. I would really like to report on a special tribe I call the Potomac River Thieves.
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