Jim Kristofic

Being new to the Rez myself, I was very interested in this book. My husband is a teacher at NHS and I work in one of the Shiprock schools. Reading this book has helped me understand the kids and the lives they lead here on the rez. Kristofic has told with humor and obvious affection, of his life in the middle of the Navajo Reservation. He captured the way they talk, interact, and gesture to one another. Kristofic gives the reader insight into what many would consider another world. I would highly recommend this book.… (mer)

I just finished NAVAJOS WEAR NIKES and I have the urge to start it again, it was that good. You know a book is something special when you think about getting back to reading the next chapter during most of your busy day, and when you stay up late into the night to read just one more word. Kristofic takes you into a world that feels unvarnished. He's an outsider, a newcomer to the reservation as a young child, as are we who know nothing of this world. With the author, we are initiated into the foreign and the familiar. We wince with the pain of brutality, ache with his sorrows, and always throughout it all there is laughter. As we laugh at the narrator's keen observations and at the original pranks that only kids on the reservation could possibly think of, we feel ourselves starting to fit in and understand.

Kristofic is a wise and witty narrator and I recommend this amazing memoir to anyone who is looking for a great read, for entertainment, and for words that will take them where they have never gone before. Truly an outstanding experience!… (mer)