Reservation Blues (Paperback)

from aowaitai

So far, Sherman Alexie is the only author who literally makes me laugh out loud and cry, cry, cry. This book isn't even my top favourite by him, yet I still love it. It is powerful, funny, moving, and makes you think. The story contrasts a realistic portrayal of what current rez life is like, and...

from john.cooper

Witty, serious, humane, raging, life-affirming, and tragic: life among today's Spokane Indians, with their ramshackle HUD housing, their commodity applesauce, their cheap beer, and their mixed religions. No punches are pulled, and many are thrown as Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Victor Joseph, and Juni...

from ABVR

It takes only a page or two of Reservation Blues to realize that Sherman Alexie is a gifted writer. His characters live and breathe, move in unexpected ways through the story, and continually fascinate. The Spokane Indian Reservation feels, too, like a real place: He captures the desolation, the ...

from bezoar44

An amazing book. Major themes include cultural appropriation of Native American-ness by whites, and the ways Indians deal with (or simply suffer from) internalized racism and the burdens of a shattered history. But that dry summary undersells the emotional power and narrative punch of this story,...

from silviastraka

I'm a white woman in social work, new to Manitoba, learning to be an Indigenous ally. I'm interested in books like Reservation Blues that are written from an insider perspective. Too often, Indian experience, culture and spirituality have been appropriated by white people and filtered through whi...