The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.” The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, “ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
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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