Christina Reviews *The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven* by Sherman Alexie

          The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a collection of interconnected stories involving a group of characters who live on a Spokane reservation.  In some ways, it is similar to Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich.  The latter is also an interconnected short story collection involving a Native American community.  The thing with Alexie, though, is that he uses the structure of his book to show how storytelling is important to this community and the way it is, in fact, how the characters develop the mythologies that help define their lives. 

           The stories work individually;  I have seen some of them in various anthologies.  And they work as a whole. 

            I don’t really have much more to say about this book.  Sometimes you just like a book but don‘t have the words to explain why.  Sometimes you even struggle to say exactly what it is the book is about.  Sometimes you just want to write a review so that a title is out there and people can go ahead and seek it out if they feel so inclined.

          I want to add that this book was the inspiration for a movie called Smoke Signals.