The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Overview
A loosely connected collection of twenty-two short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven describes incidents from the lives of various contemporary reservation Native Americans. At times comical, at times disturbing, these stories capture the daily struggles and the occasional victories of the kinds of people Sherman Alexie knows. Harshly realistic and yet deeply poetic, these stories offer insight into Native American life in America and into the perplexities of the human condition. The title came to Alexie in a dream. In an interview with Tomson Highway of...
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