Sherman Alexie

In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, yet filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents...

Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage

Short stories by American and foreign writers. In Teresa Svoboda's Sundress, homeless people occupy a house whose owners are on holiday, and the neighbors like it.

Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.

Short stories from American writers.