โ Scribed by Sherman Alexie
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The twentieth anniversary edition of Sherman Alexie's iconic short story collection--featuring a new prologue from the authorThe 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. 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. 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.The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven received a...
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**The twentieth anniversary edition of Sherman Alexieโs iconic short story collectionโfeaturing a new prologue from the author** The twenty-four linked tales in Alexieโs debut collectionโan instant classicโpaint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place
Avery Aarons believes itโs fate that she will die by the hand of a criminal. As a child, she hid in a cupboard while men ransacked their home. In college, she met with an attacker walking home on campus. After that, going into law enforcement is her only path to protect herself and others who canโt.