![]() ![]() Initially given to me by a colleague who is teaching it at the university level, I was uncertain what to expect, but the novel is billed as Taylor’s “first novel for young people” (backmatter). ![]() The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel Now we have a new player on the field: Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel. Wading through the paranormal and mythical chaff, however, we occasionally stumble upon a brilliant, innovative use of the supernatural tropes so lately bent into any narrative form authors see fit: for zombies, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s movie Shaun of the Dead (2004) for werewolves, perhaps Annette Curtis Klause’s Blood and Chocolate (1997) for vampires, until recently, Scott Westerfeld’s Peeps (2005). It seems the Twilight saga has much to answer for. ![]() The young adult literary world has become inundated with supernatural beings: werewolves, zombies, and vampires abound, in a multitude of previously unrecognized forms. ![]()
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