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Book
Sherman Alexie · 2007
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What this book knows
A reservation kid who crosses into a white school discovers that identity is multiple, loyalty is painful, and hope costs something real.
education-and-formation
That old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb. My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-015The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know. Any town, even one as small as Reardan, was a place of mystery.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-042self-and-identity
Indians are nomadic anymore. Most Indians, anyway. You're the nomadic one. I always knew you were going to leave.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-097I wish I were magical, but I am really just a poor-ass reservation kid living with his poor-ass family on the poor-ass Spokane Indian Reservation.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-005belonging
The only Indian who hadn't turned his back on me was Rowdy. He wanted to kill me, face-to-face.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-060A few folks thought I was a brave little dude for going to a white school. But a lot more people just called me names and slammed the door in my face.
ALEX-DIARY-RC-034Illuminates
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