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Now with two new stories and an introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet filled with passion and affection, myth and charm. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
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Alexie published this book at the young age of 26. He offers insight into being an Indian, and even pokes fun at himself and his culture; something we Indians do to make light of our often weary situation. Most poigniantly, the story Ghosts of Salmon is the heart of this book. Read this story and consider it above and beyond all "green" literature and Al Gore stories we hear today. Alexie, prior to the trend, had a strong understanding of what was going on prior to the term "global warming." Seeing the movie Smoke Signals does not do this book justice.
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Semi-autobiographical anthology of stories growing up and living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Humerous, yet bleak
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"Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN is for the American Indian what Richard Wright's NATIVE SON was for the black American in 1940." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
A rather sad batch of short stories about life on the Spokane Indian reservation. The feeling from the stories seems to be that the Indians have no hope of better things so they don't try.
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