Sherman Alexie

The Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. It's these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship. One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Entertainment Weekly and Bustle

A Memoir

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and the PEN/Faulkner award-winning War Dances combines his beloved classic short stories with new ones in this anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines and marriage.

Blasphemy

Selections from Sherman Alexie's Newest Book, War Dances

Sherman Alexie is an acclaimed and bestselling writer. In "Ten Little Indians", he offers eleven poignant and emotionally resonant 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 whom they love. 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, now a grown man who looks back at his life with equal parts of fondness, amusement, and regret. In "Do You Know Where I Am?", two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat - a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In "What You Pawn I Will Redeem", a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier. Even as they often make us laugh, Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candour that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.

Stories

Ten Little Indians

While a serial killer stalks and scalps white men in Seattle, John Smith, a Native American adopted into a white family, becomes dissatisfied with his life, and, as the killer searches for his next victim, John descends into the madness of Seattle's homeless.

Indian Killer

Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky. National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexie's lyrical text and Caldecott Honor-winner Yuyi Morales's striking and beautiful illustrations celebrate the special relationship between father and son.

Thunder Boy Jr.

A collection of stories about young Native Americans introduces a cast of characters who live and love in two worlds, balancing their Indian heritage and traditions against the realities of the modern world.

The Toughest Indian in the World

Arnold Spirit, Junior, bor i en fattig familie i det indiske område tæt på byen Wellpinit. Han går i skole og er glad for at starte på gymnasiet. Da læreren uddeler bøgerne, opdager han, at det er den samme bog, hans mor brugte i skolen. Han bliver rasende og takler situationen på sin egne måde

Khāṭirāt-i ṣad'dar'ṣad vāqiʻı̄-i yik surkhpust-i pārah'vaqt

What You Pawn I Will Redeem

Collection of poems revealing the spirit of North American Indian attitudes on life, love, and other experiences.

The Summer of Black Widows

Collects short stories and poems from the author, focusing on life on a Native American reservation in eastern Washington state.

Stories and Poems

The Business of Fancydancing

" Vous savez ce qui arrive aux gogols sur la réserve ? On se fait tabasser. Au moins une fois par mois. Eh ouais, je fais partie du Club du Coquard du Mois... " Le garçon qui parle ainsi est Junior, un Indien Spokane. Né tout cassé tout tordu, il accumule les handicaps : myope, maigre et premier de la classe. En vrai, Junior est drôle et assez lucide pour savoir qu'il n'aura aucun avenir s'il reste avec les siens. Il décide alors d'aller à l'école des Blancs, voir ailleurs s'il y est. Admis au prestigieux lycée de Reardan, Junior quitte la réserve. Comme il est né. En éternel optimiste. Best-seller aux USA, ce roman " presque autobiographique " parle de mille choses sans tabou et avec un humour ravageur : l'amour, l'amitié, l'exclusion, la faim et surtout l'espoir. Romancier, nouvelliste, poète, Sherman Alexie, dont l'œuvre est publiée chez Albin Michel, capture ce qui fait de la vie une aventure universelle.

Le premier qui pleure a perdu

What I've Stolen, What I've Earned

Offers a fictional portrait of the characters, language, traditions, and daily life of those living on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

A collection of poems in a variety of forms includes "Avian Nights," "The Blood Sonnets," and "How to Create an Agnostic."

Face

Presents a collection of poetry and prose reflecting on contemporary Native American life.

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