The Toughest Indian in the World - by Sherman Alexie (Paperback)

The Toughest Indian in the World is a collection of stories that present a side of American Indians rarely seen in literature - one portrayed without stereotypes, who pay their bills, hold down jobs, and fall in and out of love.

The author, Sherman Alexie, has been hailed by Time as one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise.

In these stories, we meet a Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city who 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 come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house.

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 $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy.

Sherman Alexie's voice is one of remarkable passion, and these stories are love stories - between parents and children, white people and Indians, movie stars and ordinary people.

Witty, tender, and fierce, The Toughest Indian in the World is a virtuoso performance by one of the country's finest writers.