![]() ![]() There are three stories here that could stand in any collection of excellence - "The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire," "Jesus Christ's Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation" and "Witnesses, Secret and Not." But where Victor has no diversions more effective than alcohol from the bleakness of his reservation life, Sherman Alexie has a striking lyric power to lament and praise that same crucial strain of modern American life - the oldest and most unendingly punished strain, the Native American, as it's been transformed for many Indians through a long five centuries of brutal reduction to powerlessness and its lethal companions: alcoholism, malnutrition and suicidal self-loathing. Alexie, Victor is a member of the Spokane Indian tribe and continues to live in the state of Washington. Victor, the central character and sometime narrator of at least half of these 22 short stories, is the same age. THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVENBy Sherman Alexie.223 pp. ![]()
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