I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, so I made sure it was on my Book Challenge List. This is Sherman Alexie's Young Adult novel, however I found it might be a little inappropriate for younger teenagers. For example, within the first few chapters of the book the main character says that God gave us thumbs to "pleasure ourselves." That put aside, it was a very good book and it kept my attention so much that I read it in one day. It addresses a lot of sterotypes like casinos, alcholism, and racism about Native Americans from the point of view from a teenager. There was a metaphor that I found interesting, the main character's friends thought he was a traitor and called him an apple: "red on the outside, and white on the inside." It was a great story about how a child wanted to get off the reservation and the struggles he faced from the people around him until he receives respect.
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