I think I’m going to start doing an ‘Interlude’ series for books that are not by nikkei authors. It won’t be a regular thing, as this blog is still primarily dedicated to works by nikkei creators, and it will be rather less structured than Book Spotlight, but there are many non-nikkei-authored books that I’ve really enjoyed, and it would be as great for more folks to read these books as it would be for more folks to read books by nikkei authors.

I picked The Buffalo Hunter Hunter for Interlude because it’s the first English-language novel (i.e. not comic or graphic novel) in a long time that I read straight through. I’m still figuring out why I liked it so much, but I think it mainly had to do with Jones’s writing. Something about the way he puts words together made it extraordinarily difficult to put the book down whenever I got interrupted by Responsible Adult Life. In that sense, reading Jones makes me feel much the same way I feel when I read Marjorie Liu.

Title: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Author: Stephen Graham Jones

Genre: Horror + historical fiction (is there a composite genre for both?)

Book Type: Novel

Would read this author again: Yes