Ten Little Indians

Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above,” an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her to the bewilderment of her only child. “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” starts off with a homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty years earlier from his late grandmother.
Even as they often make us laugh, Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.

Sherman Alexie is the author of the novels Reservation Blues and Indian Killer; the story collection The Toughest Indian in the World; and the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals, a film based on his highly acclaimed short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, as well as several books of poetry. Sherman Alexie's books have won the Pen/Faulkner Foundation's Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, and the Murray Morgan Prize, among others. Most recently, Alexie wrote and directed The Business of Fancydancing, a feature film. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two sons