Publication

2000 - Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

59,500 words, Guess

Page Count

238 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing7349

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3551.L35774 T68 2000

Description

"In these stories, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to return from the hospital, listening to his father's friends argue over Jesus' carpentry skills as they build a wheelchair ramp. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with forty-two dollars and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • The toughest Indian in the worldAtlantic Monthly Press2000-01-01

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