Alexie,
Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a
part-time Indian. NY: Little Brown.
Junior
is an Indian living on a reservation who decides to leave and go to a high
school where whites attend. He has a tough time because he is alienated from
both communities; the reservation and his new school. Junior makes the varsity
team as a freshman and has to play against his ex-best friend Rowdy. Junior
struggles with the death of his sister and the fact that alcoholism is plaguing
his reservation. Junior finds a better life for himself outside the
reservation. I think the author did a
good job in using humor to soften the difficult parts of the story. For example
Junior describing the cerebral spinal fluid inside his skull when he was born.
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