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    Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
    Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
    Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
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    Attack of the 50 Foot Indian

    By Stephen Graham Jones

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    Sharp, searing, with a masterful use of language, Attack of the 50 Foot Indian is a brilliant satire of the portrayal of American Indians from breakout author Stephen Graham Jones.

    A Tale of Two Moons.

    Every government of every nation debates what to do when a fifty-foot tall man, dressed in a loincloth and dripping from the sea, appears off the Siberian coast. As the American people puzzle over how he came to be and what to do next, the news outlets start calling the titan “Two Moons,” social media abducts him into the memesphere, and the military, well, they have their own action-plan for dealing with threats to what they mistakenly consider their homeland.

    With unapologetic honesty and wit, Stephen Graham Jones cuts to the bone of the stereotypes used for American Indians, showcasing his talent as a humorist and as one of our great American writers in this short story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateApr 13, 2020
    ISBN9781982157838
    Attack of the 50 Foot Indian
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    Stephen Graham Jones

    Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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      For Joe Ferrer

      The first reports to go viral on social media were grainy, and honestly looked pretty doctored: a giant unconscious man half in, half out of the Bering Sea. The half of him out of the water was washed up on Siberia.

      By the time he turned up on higher-resolution satellite photos, still just lying there, his face buried in the crook of his right arm as if sleeping one off, a team of Navy SEALs was looping a thick cable around one of his submerged ankles. The other end of that cable was hooked into the American submarine breaking a stack of accords and agreements by being this far out of its own waters. It was a gamble. Soldiers’ lives hung in the balance, careers back in D.C. were in jeopardy, and scapegoats were already lined up to be fed headfirst to the media.

      Still, once that submarine’s propeller fired up, after a tense moment where the water just churned and bubbled and frothed, the giant unconscious man broke free of the frozen gravel shore and scraped down the long incline into waters where salvage laws could be said to apply. Once out into those more neutral depths, he jerked awake all at once and flung his head up for air, and that was when the circling helicopters captured the first high-resolution video footage of his long black hair, flinging around to clear his face.

      He bellowed, his massive hand coming up to protect his nose from all this burning seawater, and, in doing so, his right arm tangled in the tow cable. The submarine still attached to that cable sloshed back against his hip, knocking him sideways in the water,

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