6. Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
《不必說你愛我》謝爾曼?阿列克謝

"Salmon-grief" echoes throughout the pages of this sardonic, raw and moving memoir from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Wild salmon provided physical and spiritual sustenance for the Interior Salish – Alexie's Native American people – for thousands of years. In 1938, five years after the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, they were gone. Alexie's Spokane mother and Coeur d'Alene father, fluent Salish speakers, were the first generation to live entirely without wild salmon. "Poverty was our spirit animal", he writes of growing up on the Spokane reservation. (Credit: Little, Brown)
《不必說你愛我》的作者阿列克謝是普利策獎獲得者。這部諷刺、樸實、感人的回憶錄字里行間都流露著“對三文魚的悲傷”。數千年來，野生三文魚一直是內陸薩利希語族（阿列克謝筆下的印第安人）身體和精神上的食糧。1938年，在華盛頓州的大古力水壩竣工5年后，它們消失了。阿列克謝的媽媽來自斯波坎，父親來自科倫達，他們操著流利的薩利希語，卻是第一代完全不依靠野生三文魚生存的薩利希人。在斯波坎印第安保留地長大的阿列克謝說，“貧窮就是我們的精神寫照。”（來源：利特爾&布朗出版社）