From BookSlut:
Gordon Johnson’s Fast Cars and Frybread is a slim volume of collected columns from the Press-Enterprise in Riverside County, California spanning 1993 to 2000 — forty-three of them, to be exact. Johnson is a Cahuilla/Cupeño member of the Pala Indian Reservation. In Johnson’s introduction, he mentions his ambition to pen “life moments [he] wanted to rescue from change.” Casinos, from Johnson’s point of view, dramatically altered reservation life and culture, thereby prompting him to detail reservation life before their advent.