| Description |
xxviii, 242 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"With a new prologue" --cover. |
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Prologue copyright 2013. |
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Includes a reading group guide. |
| Contents |
Every little hurricane -- Drug called tradition -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock -- Crazy Horse dreams -- Only traffic signal on the reservation doesn't flash red anymore -- Amusements -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- Fun house -- All I wanted to do was dance -- Trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire -- Distances -- Jesus Christ's Half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation -- Train is an order of occurrence designed to lead to some result -- A good story -- First annual all-Indian horseshoe pitch and barbecue -- Imagining the reservation -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian education -- Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven -- Family portrait -- Somebody kept saying Powwow -- Witnesses, secret and not -- Flight -- Junior Polatkin's wild west show. |
| Summary |
"Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces some of Alexie’s most beloved characters who inhabit his distinctive landscape. There is Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot—and sometimes not-so-great friend—Victor, the basketball hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. 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." --publisher's website |
| Audience |
830 Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Reading Counts RC High School 7.9 13 Quiz: 19835 Guided reading level: NR. |
| Subject |
Spokane Indians -- Fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
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Indian reservations -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
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Indigenous peoples -- Fiction.
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Autobiographical fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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Washington (State) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Autobiographical fiction.
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Short stories
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| ISBN |
9780060976248 (pbk.) |
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0060976241 (pbk.) |
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9780802121998 (pbk.) |
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0802121993 (pbk.) |
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