{"id":482,"date":"2012-09-02T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:11:15","slug":"year-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 108"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1995: <strong>Reservation Blues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Sherman Alexie<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1624997~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ReservationBlues1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-483  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ReservationBlues1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ReservationBlues1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ReservationBlues1-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/ReservationBlues1-624x204.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We picked <em>Reservation Blues<\/em> of course for it\u2019s sharp story and prose, but also because it\u2019s Alexie\u2019s first novel and because of Alexie\u2019s ties to the Northwest. Among many other honors, this book won a <em>Murray Morgan Prize\u2014<\/em>an award given by the Tacoma Public Library\u00a0 in order to recognize work that is of \u201chigh literary quality and wide interest and embodies the principles of narrative excellence and high standards of research \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reservation Blues<\/em> follows some of the chargers who debuted in <em>The Lone Ranger &amp; Tonto Fistfight in Heaven<\/em>. Having happened on to Robert Johnson\u2019s guitar, Thomas Builds-the-Fire forms a band with Victor Joseph and Junior Polatkin. Initially meeting with success, ultimately the band comes apart at the seams and each must return home and find a life path as best they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1995: Reservation Blues Author\/Editor: Sherman Alexie Find it in Collins Library! We picked Reservation Blues of course for it\u2019s sharp story and prose, but also because it\u2019s Alexie\u2019s first novel and because of Alexie\u2019s ties to the Northwest. Among many other honors, this book won a Murray Morgan Prize\u2014an award given by the Tacoma Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1988-1997"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}