Thursday, February 4, 2010

Fiction Is Absolutely True

I recently completed reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Kudos to him.

I hope someday I can to some degree and in some small measure convey the nature of my culture and geography as well as I think he does in his book about a boy living on an Indian reservation but going off the reservation to go to school.

Sure, the story he tells of Junior is a fiction. In some measure all of life is fictitious, all caught up in our imagination and fantasy. Fiction or not, however, the truth seems to shine through the best works of literature.

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