Flight: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802170374 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 181 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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An exploration of issues faced by children of Indian descent in foster care, and a plea on their behalf E. Glenn Anaiscourt One of the things I like about Sherman Alexie is how little he seems to care what anyone else thinks about what he is doing. He just does it. So "Flight" comes across to me as honest. I find honesty to be one of Alexie’s most appealing qualities as a writer.“Flight” is an exploration of how to grapple with and respond to oppression. One option is through violence: Alexie’s central character Michael, a.k.a. Zits, is a troubled teen driven out of d. A funny insightful coming of age and maturity story with a twist Sherman Alexie is a unique voice in American literature today, offering a Native American perspective that is fresh, charming, and disarming. He is extremely funny and at the same time very thoughtful. This book is a short novel that could be completely read in 6 hours. The book is an exploration of the impulse of violence, injustice and justice and humanity's odd gravitation back and forth between these concepts. Every one of the interlocking chapters is commentary on . TO FIX A BROKEN LIFE The kid goes by the name Zits. You can guess why.Life hasn't been kind to him. His father left when he was born. His mom's dead. Foster families have been cruel to indifferent.But one day Zits gets to experience life from different perspectives.And it changes everything.
Zits eventually comes back to himself and to an unexpected redemption. Half-Indian, half-Irish, acne-beset Zits is 15: he never knew his alcoholic father; his mother died when he was six; his aunt kicked him out when he was 10 (after he set her sleeping boyfriend on fire because the boyfriend had been forcing Zits to have sex). Alexie plunges the book into bracing depths. From Publishers Weekly A deadpan "Call Me Zits" opens the first novel in 10 years from Alexie (Smoke Signals, etc.), narrated by a self-described "time-traveling mass murderer" whose name and deeds unravel as this captivating bildungsroman progresses. . All rights reserved. Zits then commences time-traveling via the bodies of others, finding himself variously lodged in an FBI agent in the '70s (helping to assassinate radical Indian activists); a mute Indian boy at the Battle of Little Big Horn; an Indian tracker named Gus; an
Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he’s seen. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager a boy who is not a legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father who learns the true meaning of terror. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant making us laugh while breaking our hearts