The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie fulfills my YA best seller category on my 2016 Reading Challenge List. I also was interested in this book since it was added to some banned books lists when it first came out.
This is the story of Arthur aka Junior who is a teenager living on the Spokane Indian reservation. Junior is talks about being born with a condition called hydrocephalus, which means too much fluid around the brain. At a young age he had a surgery that he was not expected to live through, but he did.
We skip ahead to when Junior is started high school. He is sick of life on the rez; the teasing from other kids, the alcohol problems the poverty, etc. He decided that his only way at becoming successful in life is to go to school at the "white" kids school and have more opportunities available.
Junior tells us about this struggles at the new school and on the rez as a "traitor" to his tribe. There is so much more in this book than just his problems as a teenager. His life has so much hardship, but Alexie writes it in a beautiful way. I kind of saw it as a mixture of Wimpy Kid meets Me and Earl and the Dying Girl for writing style.
Other all a pretty good story. I am looking forward to reading more by Sherman Alexie.
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