This is familial redemption at its finest, which is to say agonizingly
complex and wholly engaging. - Booklist
Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern
Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a
deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from
the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy
Jack's care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into
Tommy Jack's past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair,
and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski.
Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and
depictions intersect, Extra Indians offers a powerful glimpse into
contemporary Native American life.