Extra Indians
Jul 2010 · Milkweed Editions
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"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - Booklist
Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack’s care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into Tommy Jack’s past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski.
Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and depictions intersect, Extra Indians offers a powerful glimpse into contemporary Native American life.
About the author
Eric Gansworth, a member of the Onondaga Nation, was born and raised in western New York. He has had seven books published: Indian Summers, Smoke Dancing, and Mending Skins (novels); Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon, and A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function (poems); and Breathing the Monster Alive (cross genre); and Sovereign Bones (anthology editor). A Half-Life was on the NBCC's "Good Reads" List for Spring 2008, and Mending Skins won the PEN Oakland Award in 2006. One of his plays was recently performed at the Public Theater in New York. Gansworth teaches at Canisius College and lives in Niagara Falls, New York.
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