It did not help that in his tribe, no one left the reservation. Born with brain damage to alcoholic parents, Junior was never given a chance by anyone to succeed. A mere 230 pages including comic sketches, Alexie details the plight of Arnold aka Junior, a 14 year old Spokane Indian living on a reservation. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a short novel labeled young adult but more appropriate for adult audiences. Sometimes, you wish the authors could live up to the characters they write. I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot. Junior was funny and crude and hilarious and above all, real.
Overall - I liked this book and that makes the drama with the author all the more disappointing. If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing. He's still hated at his old school but now instead of being picked on for his size and health issues, he gets to be picked on for being a traitor.īut no matter what is said or what is thrown at him, Junior decides that he will make it out there. He transfers to an all-white rural school (with a lovely Indian mascot) and everything changes. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.Junior realized that he was going nowhere fast and the only way to get out was to literally.get out. He was picked on and bullied almost constantly.Īnd then.something snapped. He was a smallish kid who used to have seizures. Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.Junior, a teenager on the Spokane Indian Reservation (the "rez"), spent his entire life trying to blend in.
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