ITEM OVERVIEW
A new collection of lyrical, rebellious, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories of the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature—the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, and fall in and out of love. 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 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... Witty, tender, fierce—a brilliant storyteller and much more.
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