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50books_pocSherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is, as everyone else has said, an excellent book. Easily one of the best books I've read this summer - heartbreaking, funny, a great first-person narrator, illustrations (little cartoons, supposedly drawn by the narrator, which are funny and sketchy and sad), very human.
It's unflinching: some things that are broken can't be fixed. But it's a sad book, not a depressing one - the pain is all necessary. (Oh, God, I'm making this sound like a book no one in her right mind would read except for a school assignment. No, really, it's sad but it's good, you hurt for the characters but it doesn't hurt to read, and there's a lot of dark humor to leaven things.)
It's wonderful, and I would recommend it without reservation.
It's unflinching: some things that are broken can't be fixed. But it's a sad book, not a depressing one - the pain is all necessary. (Oh, God, I'm making this sound like a book no one in her right mind would read except for a school assignment. No, really, it's sad but it's good, you hurt for the characters but it doesn't hurt to read, and there's a lot of dark humor to leaven things.)
It's wonderful, and I would recommend it without reservation.
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