Drew Hayden Taylor shares the two books he would take to a desert island
This interview originally aired on Oct. 12, 2019.
Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway playwright, author and journalist from Curve Lake First Nation in Ontario. His latest book is novel Chasing Painted Horses, which follows four young friends from an Ontario reserve called Otter Lake.
Taylor stopped by The Next Chapter to discuss two novels — S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water — that he would take on a desert island.
"For every book I read, there are a thousand more I have to read. I do not have the luxury of spare time to go back and reread the books I've read and loved."
"However, if I were on a desert island and I only had one or two books to read, it would come down to Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King — because I remember reading it and being blown away by the universe and or universes he creates within that book — and also S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, the book that that impressed me most as a teenager and left me surprised and flabbergasted, learning only years later, that it was written by a teenage girl."
Drew Hayden Taylor's comments have been edited for length and clarity.
