![]() As Victor matures, he navigates his relationships with his friends on the reservation, Junior Polatkin and Thomas Builds-the-Fire he experiences the rise and fall of potential basketball stardom he loses his father to a presumed suicide he falls in and out of love with several women both on and off the reservation he struggles with substance abuse, and ultimately conquers his addiction and he ultimately ends up living alone in Spokane, confident, finally, that he “knows how his dreams end.” We see the world of the reservation largely through Victor’s eyes. ![]() As a child, Victor seems to be withdrawn, pressured often into silence by the difficulties of his home life-his parents are alcoholics, and he has been raised in extreme and debilitating poverty on the Spokane Indian Reservation. We follow the path of Victor’s life from his childhood through to his adulthood, and watch-sometimes from a close or first-person vantage point, and sometimes from afar-as he struggles with his relationship to himself, his relationship to his parents, and his relationship to his tribe. ![]() ![]() Victor, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, is the protagonist of the majority of these stories, and is, in many ways, an emotional stand-in for Sherman Alexie himself. ![]()
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