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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
Though Alexie makes fun of the idea of the New York Times calling him "one of the major lyrics voices of our time", it couldn't be more true.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a collection of free verse poems and short stories centered on Native American life in the twentieth century. It's eye-opening, it's heartbreaking, it's occasionally hopeful, but it's mostly sad. This is one of those books you put down and for days after your thoughts are still in the style of Alexie's prose and you're looking an mundane scenes and imagining them as Alexie describes them.
This book had a profound effect on me, as Alexie's work always does. I will recommend this book to everyone I can and I can only hope the amazing title will draw some of them in.
Alexie has done so much to vocalize the struggles of modern-day Native Americans, to open the eyes of white people and lead the way for other native authors. I read this book, over twenty years old, and still see stories on the news of these same Native struggles Alexie discussed. Things haven't changed all too much, but the more Native Americans like Alexie there are telling these crucial stories, the more things will change.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a collection of free verse poems and short stories centered on Native American life in the twentieth century. It's eye-opening, it's heartbreaking, it's occasionally hopeful, but it's mostly sad. This is one of those books you put down and for days after your thoughts are still in the style of Alexie's prose and you're looking an mundane scenes and imagining them as Alexie describes them.
This book had a profound effect on me, as Alexie's work always does. I will recommend this book to everyone I can and I can only hope the amazing title will draw some of them in.
Alexie has done so much to vocalize the struggles of modern-day Native Americans, to open the eyes of white people and lead the way for other native authors. I read this book, over twenty years old, and still see stories on the news of these same Native struggles Alexie discussed. Things haven't changed all too much, but the more Native Americans like Alexie there are telling these crucial stories, the more things will change.