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Sherman alexie is a poet, shortstory writer, novelist, and performer. Determined to take his future into his own hands, junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an allwhite farm town high school where the only other indian is the school. The son of a spokane indian mother and a coeur dalene indian father, alexie first. In a new memoir, sherman alexie credits his mother with saving his life twice, but also.
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