Hardcover, 240 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2007 by Little, Brown Young Readers.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Enjoyed, but very far from any of my own experience of course. Still: beautifully penned.
i love this author and now he's made his particular brand of pain and search for identity accessible to young people by putting out this softer version of his work, complete with cartoons/graphics. the main character is a budding cartoonist so it's not a gimmick at all but a real, contributing part of the story.
what impresses me most about sherman alexie is his ability to devaste using simple words and simple sentence structure. a real poet.
