Sherman Alexie is an award-winning novelist, poet, filmmaker, essayist, performance artist and provocateur.
A physically and psychologically damaged child who survived a dystopian existence on the Spokane Indian "rez" or reservation, Alexie describes the emotional price he paid when he distanced himself from his family and especially his mother, in order to pursue his dreams.
When his mother died in 2015, and he had to undergo yet another surgery to remove a brain tumor, the combination of the two events plunged Alexie into a spiritual morass. His immediate response was to write his way through the crisis. The result is this memoir: a brilliant, furious, funny, profane, conflicted and compassionate attempt to exorcise the demons, propitiate his ghosts, and make peace with the past.
Click HERE to read an interview with the author from NPR.
Click HERE to read the review from Publishers Weekly.
Click HERE to read the review from the New York Times.
Click HERE to read the review from the Chicago Tribune.
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