Description
Alexie is a poet and novelist of Spokane / Coeur d’Alene descent, born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. His characters include ‘gay intellectuals, thwarted basketball players, middle-class journalists, elderly movie extras, boozy rock musicians, alienated construction workers and reservation girls whose cars only go in reverse because all the other gears are broken’ (Duncan Campbell)
