Title:
The toughest Indian in the world / by Sherman Alexie.
ISBN:
9780871138019
9780871138125
9780802138002
9781442081956
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
238 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Assimilation -- The toughest Indian in the world -- Class -- South by southwest -- The sin eaters -- Indian country -- Saint Junior -- Dear John Wayne -- One good man.
Summary:
In these nine stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocm43227429
Availability:
Inver Grove Heights - Inver Glen~1
