La Vie Aux Trousses

A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers

alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new

novelists, Indian or otherwise."

In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in

literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of

love.

A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city

picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in

the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the

hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the

house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic

accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an

International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone

to love, and emerges with $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy.

Sherman Alexie's voice is one of remarkable passion, and these stories are

love stories -- between parents and children, white people and Indians, movie

stars and ordinary people. Witty, tender, and fierce, _The Toughest Indian in

the World_ is a virtuoso performance by one of the country's finest writers.