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Reservation Blues

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In Sherman Alexie: Literary career
Reservation Blues (1995) was Alexie’s first novel. In it he posits a visit by blues legend Robert Johnson to Big Mom (a character based on Alexie’s own grandmother) as a means of examining life on the reservation and the issues facing Indians—a term Alexie prefers…
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