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 Sherman Alexie
Junior was born with water on the brain, or "too much grease inside [his] skull," as he puts it, which causes him countless medical problems as a teenager, including seizures, too many teeth in his mouth, and terrible vision, thus subjecting him to relentless teasing from his peers on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The 14-year-old protagonist of Alexie’s first young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian makes the brave decision to leave the reservation school to attend an all-white school and get a better education, condemning him as a traitor among his people. Presented as Junior’s diary, and filled with budding-cartoonist Junior’s sketches (illustrated by Ellen Forney), readers will be drawn into this story of one brave teenage boy’s journey to prove he can do more than anyone ever expected of him. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called the novel "a coming-of-age story so well observed that its very rootedness in one specific culture is also what lends it universality."
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