The FYE Common Reading Program is designed to provide a common experience for first year students to enhance participation in the intellectual life on campus.  You will participate through stimulating discussions and activities, which help encourage a sense of community between students, faculty, and staff.  You can purchase the book at the DSC Bookstore. The book must be read before the beginning of the fall semester 2008.  The Common Reading Events will begin August 26th, 2008. (refer to the FYE Common Reading Events Calendar link below)

The Book for fall 2008

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven is Sherman Alexie's breakthrough book. Comprised of twenty-two interconnected stories with recurring characters, the work is often described by critics as a short-story collection, though some argue that it has novel-like features similar to Louis Erdrich's Love Medicine. The book's central characters, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, are two young Native-American men living on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and the stories describe their relationships, desires, and histories with family members and others who live on the reservation. Alexie fuses surreal imagery, flashbacks, dream sequences, diary entries, and extended poetic passages with his storytelling to create tales that resemble prose poems more than conventional narratives.

FYE Common Reading Events Calendar >>