Flight, Sherman Alexie
Flight, Sherman Alexie
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Flight

Author: Sherman Alexie

Narrator: Adam Beach

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2008

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer. The journey begins as hes about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to awaken in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era. Its only the first stop. He continues through time to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then rides with an 1800s Indian tracker before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels, his refrain is: Whos to judge? and I dont understand humans. When he returns to his own life, he is transformed by all hes seen.

About Sherman Alexie

A National Book Award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is one of the most well-known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His works of fiction, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Reservation Blues, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, have received numerous awards and citations. He lives in Seattle. Like Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman was named for his father.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

A quick but powerful read! I was not sure what to expect right after starting or if I was going to get into it, but it ended up being quite amazing. This was my second Sherman Alexie and I continue to be impressed. Flight is a bizarre story that is a bit coming of age and a bit magical realism. The d......more

Goodreads review by Karen

This book was selected as a County Book of the Year – which meant that both our local university, and all libraries were involved in reading the book before hosting the author for a discussion event. About this book… This book felt like an intense journey. Considered a YA novel, I still felt as an ad......more