Alexie Sherman

Alexie Sherman Biography A poet, short story writer, novelist, and performer! A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation.  Born with fluid o the brain. “spinal fluid inside my skull. But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors’ fancy way of saying brain greasee not other.” A. Sherman

“The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.” Quotes Sherman Alexie “My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.” “The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.” “We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.”

"Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time."          The New York Times Book Review "Sherman looked more Indian when his hair was long."          a woman on Facebook "Emotionally spring-loaded, linguistically gymnastic, and devastatingly funny…"         San Francisco Chronicle "I hate Sherman Alexie."        a dude on Twitter http://fallsapart.com/

Alexi Sherman’s Poetry Family Memoir We carried the furniture out of the burning house—      it was a blistered finger chore— And then hurried all of the chairs, sofas, and beds      into the burning house next door.

NOVELS & SHORT STORIES