Reservation Blues

By Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'AIene). In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reser­vation, not one person has arrived by accident - until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. And when he passes his enchanted instrument to young Thomas-Builds-the-Fire, storyteller, misfit, and musician, an odyssey begins. From reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the ancient trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Thomas and his Coyote Springs bandmates careen through ancestral nightmares and rock-and-roll dreams, sounding chords of celebration and survival as timeless as their tribe

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