The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie · 1993
Stories of the Spokane reservation: poverty, humor, basketball, ghosts. Alexie writes about survival with laughter and fury.
The case against
Read in one sitting, the stories blur: the same alcoholic fathers, the same basketball ghosts, the same wisecrack-into-heartbreak rhythm, twenty-two times over. Some pieces are finished stories; others are two-page riffs that end before they start. And the despair trades on reservation imagery (drink, fistfights, ruin) that outsiders arrive already expecting to find.
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