The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian is a really interesting read. It tells the story of Junior who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Junior is an intelligent young man who happens to have been born prematurely and the resulting effects cause him to be bullied by both his peers and adults on the reserve. Junior takes solace in drawing his own cartoons which pepper the book and add wonderfully to the story.
Junior finally realizes that school on the reserve is not going to get him where he wants to go in life and he makes a momentous decision to go to high school off the reserve. This decision certainly doesn’t make his life on the reserve any easier he is now trapped between people on the reserve calling him a traitor and shunning him, and the students at his almost entirely white school excluding him because he’s from the reserve.
His life is really hard and the book is difficult to read but it really is an uplifting story about a young man who makes really difficult choices so he can do what’s best for himself and his family.
An excellent read.
Enjoy!
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