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Flight : a novel / Sherman Alexie.

ISBN: 9780802170378
ISBN: 0802170374
ISBN: 9781435228177
ISBN: 1435228170
ISBN: 9781417788484
ISBN: 1417788488
Physical Description: 181 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Black Cat : ©2007.

Alexie, Sherman, 1966- (author.).

Summary:

Flight follows a troubled foster teenager--a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father. The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why "Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s." Red River is only the first stop in an eye-opening trip through moments in American history. He will continue traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels through time, his refrain grows: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans."