"Happy Trails" is a short story by Sherman Alexie. It was originally published in The New Yorker magazine in 2013. In the story, an unnamed narrator reflects on the disappearance of his uncle and the funeral that his family held four decades later. "Happy Trails" focuses on the modern experiences of Native Americans and the manifestations of racism in the contemporary era. The story explores themes of familial connection, grief, and generational pain.
Winner of Washington State Arts Commission poetry and National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships, Sherman Alexie (born 1966) has published poems, stories, translations, and several books.Sherm...
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Sherman Alexie admits he was once a "good" Indian, his term for a person of Native American heritage who does his best to assimilate into mainstream North American society. It drove him to drink, and ...
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Sherman Alexie is the "Indian du jour" of the mainstream publishing industry, as he notes in his 1995 Tonic interview with Kelly Myers. Alexie has published seven books and three chapbooks in less tha...
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Sherman Alexie's meteoric rise to national prominence among Native American writers occurred in a period of less than five years, beginning not with a blockbuster novel published by a major commercial...
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Sherman Alexie's writing has attracted a broad spectrum of readers in a relatively brief span. During his first eight years in publishing, Alexie was awarded the Washington State Arts Commission Poetr...
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Sherman Alexie
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