Flight in Around the World in 80 Books

Nov 25, 2023 Andrea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: native-american

The main character of this young adult novel tells us in the first sentence to call him Zit. He is a teenaged orphan, with a white mother who died when he was six and an Indian father who left when he was born. Bounced from foster home to foster home, Zit’s shelf loathing and anger build up until he meets a charismatic teen who convinces him that committing an act of extreme violence will be equivalent to a “ghost dance” and will usher in a new age. In the act of killing a group of innocent peop ...more

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Jul 25, 2014 Laura (booksnob) rated it liked it

Shelves: 2014, young-adult, audiobook, historical-fiction

Listened to this on audio. This about a homeless, parentless Native American teen who has bounced from foster home to foster home and is on the wrong side of the law. As he commits a crime, he is taken on a flight into other bodies in other times and places. Sort of time travel. He is being put into situations and people relevant to his life situation. It has a hopeful ending but boy, was it hard to listen to.

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May 10, 2008 Jana rated it really liked it

Nothing like I was expecting. In a good way. A book that will require a lot of thought to completely digest. Amazingly enough it is the second in a row that I have read that will require deeper thought. The themes of loneliness, death, killing, family were a pleasant surprise in a book I had no preconceived expectations about.

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Dec 27, 2016 Lindsay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Excellent.

Recommend for ya. Magical realism, foster care, native american, northwestern u.s., violence, guns, second chances, racism, fatherhood, friendship, history, juvenile detention.

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