The Antioch Review, June 22nd, 2004
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie. Grove Press, 243 pp., $24.00. This volume of short stories, which begins and ends with two novella-length stories, is the third book of stories written by one of the most distinctive and original young voices in contemporary American literature.
Alexie's literary voice is distinctive, idiosyncratic, and disarmingly compelling. Born on a reservation near Spokane, he pokes cynical but deadly serious fun at all labels describing what he and his people should be called and is equally dismayed by the inaccuracy of both "Indian" and "Native-American." All ten...
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