<DIV>Sherman Alexie has been hailed as ?one of the best writers we have” (<I>The Nation</I>). <I>Reservation Blues</I> is his ?irresistibly stunning debut novel” (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire?storyteller, misfit, and musician?a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans.<BR></DIV>