Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Young adult novel mixing humor and heartbreak as teen navigates reservation identity

About the author

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

Spokane-Coeur d'Alene novelist and poet whose The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a celebrated collection of interlocking stories. His fiction is darkly comic about reservation life and Native American experience. He is one of the most widely read Native American authors.

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