Author
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is the Spokane / Coeur d'Alene American novelist, short-story writer, and poet whose The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) is one of the most-read American YA novels of the last twenty years. He also writes for adults (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) with the same precision.
Reviews
5
Books on file
5
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Years active
1993-2007
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Our reviews of Sherman Alexie's work
Indian Killer
by Sherman Alexie
Alexie's darkest novel. A serial killer is targeting white men in Seattle. The book is not interested in being a thriller.
Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's first novel. Robert Johnson hands his guitar to a kid on the Spokane Reservation. Magic realism with grief in the bones.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
YA semi-memoir about a kid who transfers off the rez to a white school. Funny, brutal, repeatedly banned, deserves to be read.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
The Alexie short story collection that made his career. Some of these became Smoke Signals. All of them earn their place.
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's 2000 story collection. Tougher, sadder, more sexually frank than Lone Ranger and Tonto. The follow-up earns itself.
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Sherman Alexie's first novel. Robert Johnson hands his guitar to a kid on the Spokane Reservation. Magic realism with grief in the bones.
YA semi-memoir about a kid who transfers off the rez to a white school. Funny, brutal, repeatedly banned, deserves to be read.
The Alexie short story collection that made his career. Some of these became Smoke Signals. All of them earn their place.
Alexie's darkest novel. A serial killer is targeting white men in Seattle. The book is not interested in being a thriller.
Sherman Alexie's 2000 story collection. Tougher, sadder, more sexually frank than Lone Ranger and Tonto. The follow-up earns itself.