"Alexie's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to- anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts.?-The Boston Globe "Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright's Native Son was for the black American in 1940.?-Chicago Tribune Sherman Alexie's celebrated first collection,The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , established its author as one of America's most important and provocative voices. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals , it remains one of his best loved and widely praised books twenty years after its initial publication. Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces some of Alexie's most beloved characters, including Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot, Victor, the sports hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. Now with an updated introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet they are filled with passion and affection, myth and charm. Against a backdrop of addiction,