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Each paragraph is a snapshot of everyday life on the reserve, a description of a photo or a memory in the narrator’s mind’s eye, the writing “soft as a partridge’s belly.” And the result is quite beautiful.

Annabelle Larousse’s translation of this François Barcelo short story is one of a collection of six to be released earlier this year. It’s typical Barcelo: dark and funny, with a nod and a wink to a very serious theme (drug abuse) along the way.

I read The Douglas Notebooks all at once. There was something so ephemeral, so whimsical, about this tale that it felt as though it might all disappear if I put the book down.