Flight by Sherman Alexie, 3.5 stars [flurries][bwf]

[NancyJ]

This book got off to a rough start with the kind of gross language teenage boys like, and I tossed it aside. Later I remembered that I felt that way with another Sherman Alexie book, which I ended up loving, so I retrieved this one. The main character is an angry indigenous foster kid who goes by the nickname of Zits. He had several abusive foster parents already, and he doesn’t trust anyone. Now he shuts down or acts out with every new placement. He runs away and meets a charismatic kid who pushes him to commit a crime. In the middle of it, he travels back in time, into another person’s body. He shifts into several different historical events that were important to indigenous people in the last several hundred years. Both the historical and personal stories are interesting.