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"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - BooklistEvery 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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781571310798
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 272
  • Udgivet:
  • 16. december 2010
  • Størrelse:
  • 139x215x19 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 439 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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"This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly complex and wholly engaging." - BooklistEvery 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.

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