I love King's writing. The humour is dry, just like I like it. Where to start with this one? The story is beautifully weird with wonderful characters that will stay with you.

In doing the ratings of books, I give 4 stars to books I really like. In this way, I am able to save my 5 star ratings for books that I think are outstanding. This is one of them.

Granted, I am a Thomas King fan. I have read his books for years, liking some more than others, as is expected. This is his latest book and I think it could be his best.

The protagonist is Jeremiah. He has left his old life behind and is trying to hide from the world due his disillusionment and trying to see if he can forge a new life. Yet "they" pull him back to his old life.

Wow - this story line doesn't sound compelling, I know.

I love King's writing. The format might not appeal to everyone. As Jeremiah would be doing something or listening to someone, other completely unrelated thoughts would pop into his head. And I can identify with that. As someone might be telling me about the best road to take to the farmer's market, my mind is wondering whether I should change the colour of my curtains. And in this book, it changes all the time with Jeremiah.

As the book blurb says, this book is a "sly and satirical look at the fractures in modern existence". King is very much dealing with the realities of reserve life, slamming politics, consumerism and racism.

I never re-read books. Yet this is one that I might re-read, it was that good.

Fun and satisfying.

I actually finished this a while ago and forgot to update Goodreads.

This is honestly such a hard book to boil down to a simple number. I found the plot to be slow and maybe even a little uninteresting, however the plot was almost irrelevant though since most of what was interesting in Sufferance was Jeremiah's perspective on the world. He had cynical and sarcastic view that I found to be mostly really funny but also incredibly depressing at times. I didn't care what happened next, but I was always looking forward to seeing what Mr. Camp thought of it.

Not my favorite book and I might hesitate to recommend it to others, but I REALLY want to read more from Thomas King.

Sufferance is a classic Thomas King novel, featuring an Indigenous protagonist, Jeremiah Camp, who fled the corporate world and now lives in a residential school with a cat. His daily routine involves stops at the local bakery and coffee shop, followed by uprooting and burning the crosses at the school graveyard and replacing them with stone markers. He is haunted by the dead, by his past, and by the injustices and legacy of colonialism in the world today, and does not speak. Still there is humour in Camp's wry observations and in some of the town caricatures, like the corrupt Mayor Bob.

I found the ending a bit anticlimactic and most of the characters a bit lacking in complexity. Also I found Lala a bit annoying but that could be just down to the narrator of the audiobook's choices (he was otherwise great).