But most of all, Alexie writes human stories that happen to involve a lot of Indians

Whether or not Native American issues are meaningful to you, these stories are poignant and real and touching

Of course, the world of which he writes is unknown to me

These are stories of real life

Nearly twenty years ago I had the pleasure of hearing Sherman Alexie read from his work at the University of Arizona, and realized that I was hearing a genuine superstar in the literary genre of short story, portraying the lives of his fictional American Indians with ample with and compassion, replete with a graceful, often poetically terse, literary style

I've put off finishing this book for more than a month because I didn't want it to end! Not all of the stories are about Native Americans (although he's really in his element there)