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Book SynopsisA very liberal contemporary coupleAngel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a non-practising Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literaturehosts a dinner party. The guests at this little sitcom soirée are couples that represent what by now have become the clichéd extremes of both societies: Angel's former radical Native activist buddies and Colleen's environmentally concerned vegetarian / veterinarian friends. The menu is, of course, the hosts' respectful attempt at shorthand for the irreconcilable cultural differences about to come to a head during the evening: moose roast and vegetarian lasagna.
Like all of Drew Hayden Taylor's work, alterNatives manages to say things about Whites and Indians that one is not supposed to talk aboutit digs up the carefully buried, raw and pulsing nerve-endings of the unspeakable and exposes them to the hot bright lights of the stage. That he does so with a humour that the politically correct among his audiences continue t
