World Literature Today, June 22nd, 1994
The Bingo Palace defines primary relationships in terms of living beings. Each action reflects interrelationships within the Chippewa Nation rather than merely defining cause-and-effect explanations of events in the Upper Midwest. Past, present, and future ties represent an unbroken unity, beyond any sense of history.
The principal characters--Lyman Lamantine, a "dark-minded schemer"; Shawnee Ray Toose, who exhibits a "young woman's beauty"; and Lipsha Morrissey, who "flails in a circle with his own tail in his teeth"--are seemingly tied in a love triangle. Their story makes no sense, howev...
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