Overdrive - e book - first recommended by Grandma Rose
Befitting my all things native reading and watching kick.... I started this book years ago but it offended my Victorian sensibilities. Those sensibilities are still firmly in place. I just try not to throw someone's story out if I want to learn about a sub culture which is different from my own. For goodness sakes, I read the Good Earth when I was in fifth grade and it was pretty "earthy," not titillating just accurate.
Sherman Alexie has an authentic voice and I love his cartoons. Depiction of reservation life near Spokane Washington and the realistic tension between his desire to escape the downward spiral that seemed to trap his counterparts on the reservation and the part of himself that was firmly and deeply rooted to his heritage and people. He joins a "white" school and learns to thrive there, but this means facing derision at home and foregoing his best friend and protector "Rowdy." There is a reconciliation of sorts but the tension is visceral.
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