This is some very American magical realism, what with its mash-up of the Robert Johnson crossroads legend with life on a Spokane Indian reservation and rock star ambitions. The three boys start a rock and blues band in Spokane using Johnson's enchanted guitar. He sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.
In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, meet American blues musician Robert Johnson. The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation. Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by American writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene).
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