\'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten.\' So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger \'s masterpiece of American fiction.. \'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten.\' So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger \'s masterpiece of American fiction.