![]() ![]() This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author's personal collection. In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. Characters grapple with their trauma and their worst nightmares while asleep, primarily because they cant face those parts of themselves in their waking life. It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire's van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom. Reservation Blues Symbols Share Dreams Dreams symbolize the characters unresolved pain and fearsboth those felt directly and inherited pain from long-ago events. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss-but also joy and laughter. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie's brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock 'n' roll, and redemptionĬoyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world. ![]()
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