Condition Ratings:
- Like New= Originally bought new and gently read once. In perfect physical condition.
- Great= No rips or tears. No writing or highlights. Slight creasing on spine.
- Good= Small rips or tears. Some writing or highlights. Some creasing on covers and spine. If hardcover, missing book jacket.
- Fair= Major creasing, or large rip/tear. Excessive writing/ highlighting.
About the Book:
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.
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. 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.