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.
A wonderfully insightful and racially-charged read about the importance of America's cultural history, landscape, and how one awkward teenager can fit into it all.
I almost gave up on finding any new fiction that I actually liked, but it turned out Alexie wrote another book. Easy read. Loveable picaresque main character. Moments of hilarity. Lots of tragedy. Social commentary that isn't shoved down your throat. Tho I feel they are going to make a really cheesy, uplifting movie based on it some day and then I reserve the right to hate it.
Superb coming of age book. Would recommend to any teenager and twice that many adults.
From the first sentence I was hooked! A warm, funny, brilliant book... Wish I could have heard him talk when he was here a few months ago
