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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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Read because this has been on banned book lists. I knew about the problem of alcoholism and under education previously, but so much death....nope, that caught me off guard. All the curating was okay in this book, my tolerance seemed to be higher because of the circumstances described. Recommend.
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