TY - BOOK AU - Alexie,Sherman TI - War dances SN - 0802119190 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Grove Press KW - Authors KW - Fiction KW - Coeur d'Alene Indians KW - Fathers and sons KW - Indians of North America KW - Short stories, American KW - Spokane Indians KW - Terminally ill KW - Short stories KW - gsafd N1 - ""The Limited"" -- Breaking and entering -- ""Go, Ghost, Go"" -- Bird-watching at night -- ""After building the Lego 'Star Wars' Ultimate Death Star"" -- War dances -- ""The theology of reptiles"" -- Catechism -- ""Ode to small-town sweethearts"" -- The senator's son -- ""Another proclamation"" -- Invisible dog on a leash -- ""Home of the braves"" -- The ballad of Paul Nonetheless -- ""On airplanes"" -- Big bang theory -- ""Ode for pay phones"" -- Fearful symmetry -- ""Ode to mix tapes"" -- Roman Catholic haiku -- ""Looking glass"" -- Salt -- ""Food chain."" N2 - A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying ER -