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Name: Gordon Lee Johnson - Bird Songs Don't Lie- Writings from the Rez (retail) (epub)
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Title: Bird Songs Don't Lie
Author: Gordon Lee Johnson
Language: English
Year: 1995
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9780385480017
Total pages: 272 str.

In this collection of essays and short stories, the Native American author explores reservation life through a range of genres and perspectives.
In this moving collection, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) distinguishes himself not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson's stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable characters like Plato Pena, the Stanford-bound geek who reads Kahlil Gibran during intertribal softball games; hardboiled investigator Roddy Foo; and Etta, whose motto is "early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise," as they face down circumstances by turns ordinary and devastating.
The nonfiction featured in Bird Songs Don't Lie is equally revelatory in its exploration of complex connections between past and present. Whether examining his own conflicted feelings toward the...