Sherman Alexie

When his mother passed away at the age of seventy-eight, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. Featuring seventy-eight poems and seventy-eight essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine--growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent,...

Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage.

Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.

This brilliant new anthology collects 86 of the most beautiful, provocative and moving flash fiction narratives, which are very short stories usually no more than 750 words, from around the world that challenge readers to expand their horizons and celebrate both the local and universal.