In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when Blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his Reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar.
This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans..
When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire--storyteller, misfit, and musician--a magical odyssey begins that will take them from Reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan.
One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead.
Reservation Blues is his irresistibly stunning debut novel ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
Sherman Alexie has been hailed as one of the best writers we have ( The Nation ).
In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when Blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his Reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar
