Not what I was expecting

Perhaps I took the blurb too literally, but I might have enjoyed the novella more if I hadn't been led to expect a quite different story. I might relisten some time in the future, and maybe increase the star rating.
I get annoyed by certain self-righteous types who berate you for cultural appropriation if you wear a sombrero on a hot day, or try to shame you because you haven't read enough books by People Of Colour or you don't have enough trans friends. So I was amused that the protagonist of this novella refers to himself and his people as "Indian" throughout, rather than Native American. I think the author would have been castigated for this if he were not himself a member of that particular ethnic group.
One of the most interesting aspects of the listen I found was the voice - both in the sense of the writing and the narrator's delivery. The perspective is a child's, but remembered as an adult, and the description that kept coming to mind was "simple". I wasn't happy with the word until I was able to clarify that I didn't mean it in the sense of naive or unintelligent. Rather, it is simple in the sense of uncluttered.
In conclusion, not a bad couple of hours, but try to approach it with a more open mind than I did.

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