What is Sherman Alexie's literary style?

In her work on Native American Writers, Susan Brill describes Alexie Sherman's writing as a mix of 

...pain and humor, hunger and survival, love and anger, broken treaties Manifest Destiny, basketball, car wrecks, commodity food, HUD houses, smallpox blankets, and promises and dreams.

Into this paradoxical mixture, Sherman fuses irony and dark humor with traditional elements of Indian mythmaking with surrealistic images, spirituality, and poetic passages. As one character describes himself,

"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets...I'm traveling heavy with illusions.” 

Humor in the characters is often their coping mechanism, of course, but it comes with an acute sense of timing on the part of Sherman. Along with realistic diaries and dream imagery, narratives approach a type of stream-of-consciousness, but done in the shades of Native American states of mind. In addition, Sherman's characters delve into a mental, emotional and spiritual dimension of "fancydancing." Often there are shifts in person, using the intimate first person, then changing to a more objective and distant third person narration.

In his early story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," irony figures strongly as does symbolism; for example, alcoholic drinks are symbolic of the White Man who introduced them to the Native American, effecting much of their spiritual destruction. Certainly, there is always a collage, the tragic and the humorous, objective narration mixed with dreams and "fancydance," emotion with logic, tradition with the moment,representations of mind, spirit, and body, vying for attention in the reader's contemporary mind. One critic observes that Sherman's imagination “turns every word into a bottle rocket.”

How would you describe Sherman Alexie's style in "Every Little Hurricane"?

When discussing style, I find the most useful literary elements you must look at are the following: point-of-view, narrative presence, diction, and figurative language.

In "Every Little Hurricane," Sherman Alexie uses a third-person limited narrator who follows the actions of Victor, a boy in the story. For the most part, this narrator tells the story in a matter-of-fact way ("It was January and Victor was nine years old. He was sleeping in his bedroom in the basement of the HUD house when it happened."). In addition, this narrator is clearly sympathetic toward Victor, who, when all the fighting and destruction is happening, "pulled the strings of his pajama bottoms tighter. He squeezed his hands into fists and pressed his face tightly against the glass."

However, the narrator takes this matter-of-fact voice and uses an extended metaphor throughout the story to create this meaning. Throughout the story, the narrator calls the conflict that occurs in this reservation home "a hurricane." The story begins with Victor's uncles, Adolph and Arnold, fighting on the lawn tearing down a tree. To Victor, this fight is a natural occurrence, like a hurricane. The narrator says that Victor had seen footage of hurricanes before, and like those storms, this fight was like "a photograph of a car that a hurricane had picked up and carried five miles before it fell on a house."

But this hurricane, according to the narrator, extends far beyond this fight between his uncles. The hurricane, for indians living on this reservation, is something that naturally occurs. The narrator makes this statement in a matter-of-fact way: "[T]he storm had that had caused their momentary anger had not died. Instead, it moved from Indian to Indian at the party, giving each a specific, painful memory."

This ability to take something that might seem insignificant, like the fight between two brothers, into something grand and almost metaphysical is an Alexie trait. This story is a perfect example of that.