White Horse

I don't do a whole lot of horror, but usually in October I get a hankering for something a little spooky. This was a lightly scary tale by an indigenous author featuring urban Indian characters, and a folkloric monster that terrorizes the main character, Kari, who begins seeing horrifying apparitions of her mother, who disappeared when Kari was two days old.

This is a very interior book, you're mostly in Kari's head, not sure if she's a reliable narrator, but still rooting for her to get her stuff together. She doesn't have a lot of people in her life, and she is a primary caretaker for her dad, who has a brain injury, and her life has not been easy by any stretch.

There were some continuity things I noticed (I received this from Book of the Month a couple years ago, maybe this was an early version?), but the writing was engaging and the story pretty quick paced once I got into it. I enjoyed getting a perspective of modern, less traditional indigenaity (sp?) too, which I have not read much about. I'd check out other of Wurth's books in the future. 3.5 stars.

CW: alcohol (including drinking and driving), drug abuse/overdose, death, ghosts, racism, child sexual assault (off page), smoking, police/FBI, guns