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Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Sherman Alexie Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-04-17 ISBN: 0802170374 Number of pages: 208 Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat Product features:
Book Reviews of Flight: A NovelBook Review: A funny insightful coming of age and maturity story with a twist Summary: 4 StarsSherman 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 either violence, justice, or both.
This novel is about an adolescent young man, part Native American and part Irish, who is full of anger and violence and hatred toward the world. Yet the novel takes this young man through a series of adventures that allows him to explore violence and its consequences, injustice and its consequences, and then resolution and peace.
The young man is called "Zits" and he has all the pent up anger of a rejected teenager. He never knew his alcoholic Native American father. Now he goes from foster home to foster home acting terrible and wondering why the world is so hostile.
The dark humor and insights of Zits reminded me of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye.
The book takes us through racial collective pain as well as individual personal pain, but creatively also takes us beyond that pain - making this more than a funny novel and more of a sly commentary on the human condition.
Summary of Flight: A NovelThe 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. 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. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he's seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant?- making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.
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