Ten Little Indians (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802141170)

Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
In Alexie's first story, "The Search Engine," Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her to the bewilderment of her only child. "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" starts off with a homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty years earlier from his late grandmother.
Even as they often make us laugh, Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.

Author: Sherman Alexie
ISBN-10: 080214117X
ISBN-13: 9780802141170
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76144 / Ten Little Indians


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/29/2004 pg. 20