This storyline is what makes The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian just the slightest bit readable this is where it shows the good part of contemporary young adult fiction. While Junior’s attendance at Reardan jeopardizes his relationships with almost everyone on the reservation, it is his only hope of escaping the tragic circumstances and vices that grip his people. That is true until Junior’s in-class meltdown on the first day of high school leads a teacher to encourage him to transfer to the more affluent Reardan High in the white town just off the rez. Unfortunately, “Junior” and his talents are fated to be squandered at the reservation high school just like so many of his poverty-stricken, now alcoholic, neighbors. He is a self-professed, sickly weakling, but, much like his older sister, he is also uncommonly intelligent and highly creative. And that is exactly why parents should guard against their children reading it.Īrnold Spirit, Jr., lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington State. It won the National Book Award, received best-book-of-the-year awards from a dozen institutions and publications, and, according to one critic, “it took only one book to master the form.” This book has everything that it takes to become a popular and critically acclaimed YA novel in the current climate. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is the first young adult novel by Sherman Alexie.
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