One Good Story, That One
Stories

My uncle would religiously give my late father a Thomas King book for his birthday every year a new one was published. My dad loved King’s writing and although he was a learned man, a teacher, a historian and a respected elder on our reserve he only kept a small personal library. When he passed last......more

These stories were published in journals and magazines in 1985 to 1992, and the collection appeared in 1993. Later in the 1990s this book was selected as "one of the top 100 Canadian books of all time" by The University of Toronto Bookstore Review. I wonder, today, if this short story collection wou......more

One Good Story, That One is a collection of short stories that range from an indigenous storyteller telling stories of history to the trickster coyote, to aliens coming to take all the indigenous people to another planet. These stories really fit into every category from insightful to outright hilar......more

Good read. Funny. The short story format really demonstrated something to me that feels pretty glaring. If he’s Cherokee, why is he writing about the Blackfoot, the Hupa and others? I wonder how those nations feel about King doing this type of thing. I can imagine they don’t like it very much. It fe......more

A small collection of short stories, including a few coyote tales, some humorous interactions, and a bit of the supernatural. I don't know what I was expecting, exactly, but I can't say I'm disappointed. This book brilliantly combines the silly and the terrible and the wondrous. Some of the stories......more