The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
by Sherman Alexie is one of the 2008 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
Based on his personal experiences, the author creates fictional characters to tell a story about the life of a Native American boy. This story deals with how a young boy breaks away from his destined life in order to follow his own dreams. He changes school to attend an "all white farm school" in order to pursue his studies of becoming a cartoonist. Faced with poverty, racism, and death Arnold Spirit Jr. separates from his tribe in the reservation in hopes of seeking his own identity.
This book has many topics such as a person's handicaps, Native American living in a reservation, the struggle of trying to find your own identify, and the heartbreaking experience of loosing people you love in a drunk-driving car accident. The book is most appropriate for high school students because of the dark humor and language involved. Even though I don't consider this book to fit in my can't put this book down to read category kind-of-books, it was still interesting to read.
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