Fresh off his National Book Award win, Sherman Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight intot he minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change.

Sherman Alexie is the author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. He wrote and directed The Business of Fancydancing and also wrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals. (And he's a favorite of several members of the Left Bank Books family.)