Leslie Marmon Silko

Story Preparation Introduction Like the narrator of “Breaking and Entering,” Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. grew up on the Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He was born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and was not expected to survive. Throughout his childhood, he suffered seizures, yet he learned to read by age three and was gobbling up novels such as The Grapes of Wrath by the time he was in kindergarten. At his off-reservation high school, he was the only Indian, except