A review by bergsteiger
War Dances by Sherman Alexie

4.0

This is my second Sherman Alexie book and I enjoyed it as much as the first. He does an excellent, and seemingly paradoxical, job of finding humor in serious situations, while not taking the stock, canned, progressive view of tough social issues. He is, in a word, nuanced. Ultimately this is a collection of short stories and like old school CDs, there are some not so good tracks in there with the gems. Personally loved "Breaking and Entering", "Paul the Nonetheless", and "Salt". At any rate, well worth the read. he even manage to write a couple of halfway decent poems ;) Go ahead and grab this collection off the shelf. 4 stars.