The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie



The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Alexie, Sherman, and Ellen Forney. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
In the novel The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the novel
centers around the life of Junior, a teenage American Indian growing up on a reservation.
Junior’s life is hard; being raised in poverty, dealing with racism, and he himself having medical
issues. Basketball seems to be the only thing that Junior truly loves. When Junior decides to
attend a school off the reservation, everyone he has ever known seems to turn their backs on
him. The neighbors are hostile towards him, his best friend won’t even talk to him, and even his
parents don’t understand his wanting to attend the “white” school.  With the help of new friends,
Junior makes the basketball team at his new school and begins to feel like he fits in. At the
championship basketball game, Junior plays against his old school, and his old friends.
Rivalries are tough, but at the end of the day, friendship turns out to be more important.  
For fans of this novel, I recommend reading Flight, another novel written by Sherman Alexie. Similar to The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian, Flight centers around a half Native American, half Irish teenager.

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