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Though hes not above old tricks like narrative sleightofhand his ironic sense of humor is if anything even wryer his style while still lean is now not quite so spare

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Alexies is to borrow from james baldwin the price of the ticket that twoway cost of modern indian assimilation forward and outward into american society while yet attempting to bridge the disconnection from tradition and heritage

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They depict often people at personal crossroads

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There are the coeur dalene woman hightech executive and the citybred spokane corporate lawyer each living the american dream life while harboring inner rage at the choices theyve made their selfreflective rage literally finding stereotypic indian figures to help shatter their civilized boundaries

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Theres the feckless poet looking for love in all the wrong people

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The pudgy teenager willing to be the hostage of an inept alienated holdup man

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Most harrowing and deliberately so since its a literal nightmare is the protracted horror of a young boy swept along in the cascading events of the final solution of the indian problem

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Theres some wistfulness also the recollections of the woman loved by john wayne on the set of the searchers