Extra Indians

Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey makes the long haul from Texas to northern Minnesota to watch the meteor showers. One cold night, in a moment of kindness, Tommy picks up a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When she dies of exposure in Tommy Jack's care, a media storm erupts, jarring loose pieces of Tommy Jack's past: the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski.

Wending between the present and a string of haunting memories-Tommy Jack's aimless life as a truck driver and husband, Fred Howkowski's thwarted career as an actor in Hollywood, and the return of Tommy Jack's estranged adoptive son to Texas-this lively, engrossing novel explores the ways images and stereotypes intersect with reality in Native America.