The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie, 2007
Young adult Graphic novels & humourContemporary fiction
A teenage cartoonist leaves his reservation school for a white town's, and reports the whole funny, bruising business in drawings and wisecracks.
Feels like wonder. About identity and power.
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What poverty actually teaches, from someone who sat through the lesson.
Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. Sherman Alexie.Alexie wrote the screenplay for Smoke Signals (1998), widely called the first feature film written, directed and co-produced by Native Americans.
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