The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie • 2007
Devastation Rating
poverty injustice literary fiction loss family
Our Take
Junior leaves the reservation for the white school and loses everyone on both sides. Alexie writes the impossibility of that position with furious, funny, heartbreaking honesty. The cartoons are part of the grief. The deaths accumulate. A YA novel that does not protect you.
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