![]() Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection-an instant classic-paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. ![]() ![]() Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. ![]()
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