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Martha
Jul 02, 2018 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-2018, mental-health, bipoc-authors-indigenous
This is a semi-autobiographical novel about Junior, a teenage boy living on a Spokane Indian reservation in Washington, USA. He experiences many of the problems many teenage boys do, but his story is overlaid with the cultural context of being Native American, and choosing to move to a school outside of the reservation.

I've never read anything about indigenous peoples, so I found the context to this story really interesting. Junior talks about the poverty of his people as well as the high rates ...more
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Olivermagnus
Feb 02, 2024 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ya, humor, 2024, zfeb-2024, authors-of-color
This is the sad and hilarious story of Arnold “Junior” Spirit, a young Spokane Indian born with hydrocephalus and a range of other issues. He only has one friend and comes from a troubled yet loving family. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his failing school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. As the story progresses, Junior grapples with his decision while trying to figure out his identi ...more
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Chaitra
Mar 28, 2018 rated it it was ok
Shelves: young-adult, slice-of-life, realistic-fiction
I read Sherman Alexie's memoir first. I wasn't fully on board with the memoir either, but it has better anecdotes and a much better main character (Sherman's mom, Lillian Alexie). ...more
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Jul 07, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Dec 01, 2016 marked it as z-labeled-2016
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Jan 13, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Jun 15, 2017 rated it really liked it
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