Studded with Ellen Forney's crumpled-paper drawings, this book has lots of ways to love it--its humor, its painful sweetness, and its hurt. Having spent a lot of time in the Mississippi Delta (a place similar to the poverty and beauty of Alexie's Spokane Rez) it felt familiar. Like reviewers before me, I had trouble putting this one down. I'm going to buy 2 copies--one for me and one for the 8th graders I teach.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
wagnerao, March 3, 2008
Studded with Ellen Forney's crumpled-paper drawings, this book has lots of ways to love it--its humor, its painful sweetness, and its hurt. Having spent a lot of time in the Mississippi Delta (a place similar to the poverty and beauty of Alexie's Spokane Rez) it felt familiar. Like reviewers before me, I had trouble putting this one down. I'm going to buy 2 copies--one for me and one for the 8th graders I teach.(9 of 16 readers found this comment helpful)