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![]() Victor is one of the main characters of the stories. ![]() Nothing changes-it only has the appearance of change. The reader has a sense of time standing still. ![]() Ambition and challenge are short-lived with characters reverting to their comfort zone of doing nothing and going nowhere. Further complicated by limited education, unstable and absent parenting and home life, a lack of positive role models, and a fear of the unknown outside world, the characters go in circles with the nothingness of their lives. ![]() Set in the late 20th century on an Indian reservation in Spokane, Washington, we meet a group of people beset by poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, and isolationism from the society outside their reservation. The award winning movie Smoke Signals, released in 1998, is based on the short story “What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” from this book. This book is a collection of inter-connected short stories that won the PEN/Hemingway Award. It’s impossible not to hear the underlying plaintive cries of this book that presents itself as a work of fiction when it captures the very essence of people who have lost their once proud cultural identity and are hardpressed to find something to replace it. ![]() Book Review: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie 4 Stars **** (1993, 2005, Prologue 2013) (Adult and mature Young Adult) ![]()
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