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Junior is a freshman starting high school when he decides he wants to get a better education than he can get on the reservation so he begins going to school in Reardan, a town 22 miles away. Junior frequently ends up walking or hitchhiking to school because his parents don't have gas money. The story is interspersed with comics drawn by Junior. This is essentially the story of how Junior doesn't feel like he belongs anywhere, he is treated like a betrayer on the resrvation but he isn't white eit
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Wow! What a gut-punch book. I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it. I was amazed by the picture of self-loathing that Alexie paints as part of life on an Indian reservation. Arnold Spirit (a/k/a Junior) understands it only too well and does a brilliant job of showing the rest of us how dismal life on the rez can be, while at the same time showing its beauty and the love and pride Junior has in himself and his family despite their shortcomings. This year-in-the-life captures what Arnold g
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Ehhh...it was okay. This book pales to other diary format books.
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