Flight: A Novel

ISBN: 0802170374

Author: Alexie, Sherman

Condition: New

The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years is the hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a violent search for his true identity.Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of huge national stature. His first novel since Indian Killer is 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.The journey for this young hero begins as hes about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time and resurfaced in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era. Here he will be forced to see just why Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s. Red River is only the first stop in a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He will continue traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these frantic trips through time, his refrain grows: Whos to judge? and I dont understand humans. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all hes seen.This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant-making us laugh while hes breaking our hearts. Time Out has said that Alexie, like his characters, is on a modern-day vision quest, and this has never been clearer than in Flight, where he seeks nothing less than an understanding of why human beings hate. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking Alexie.

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