Sherman Alexie writes fiction, poetry and memoir about Native American life, reservation communities, identity and the pressures of moving between cultural worlds. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian follows Junior, a Spokane teenager who leaves his reservation school for a largely white high school and records the resulting conflicts through first-person narration and cartoons. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven collects linked stories about characters around the Spokane Reservation, while Reservation Blues brings music and a version of blues legend Robert Johnson into the same community. Alexie's work is funny, angry and direct, often mixing hardship with jokes rather than treating either tone separately. His books fit Native American literature, contemporary short fiction and coming-of-age writing. Read more Less
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