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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition) by Sherman Alexie

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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"I am a poet who can whine in meter."

Somehow Alexie is simultaneously the most aware and unaware author in everything he writes. Sadly, it's part of this quirk that makes it extremely hard to separate the author from the work. A lot of the warnings signs of his later behavior are clearly illustrated in this book, especially when he admits in the 20th anniversary edition that this is a thinly veiled memoir.

If you don't know recently Alexie has been getting a lot of heat online for his views on "Pretendians", Urban Natives that he so frequently trash talks in this book, along with being called out during the #MeToo movement....I could go on but I shan't.

Of course there is also talk in the Indigenous Literary circle about how Alexie's work does more harm than good, especially in Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, as this book in particular puts Natives into two clearly defined separate stereotypical categories: you're either the Native shaman with inifinte wisdom or the bumbling Indigenous drunk with toxic behavoirs with no middle ground or nuance.

.....got any reccs for better Indigenous writers? Send them my way.
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