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A review by lesbrary
Flight by Sherman Alexie
4.0
This was incredible. I highly recommend the audio book. Adam Beach (a Native actor who was in Smoke Signals) does it and he does an incredible job. This is a story about pain and justice and most of all rage. It's about how people do monstrous things and about the cruelty of the world, but also about... hope? Survival? Shouldering the responsibility of being a stranger?
There is so much emotion, especially anger, in this book. It's not something to be picked up lightly. But it tackles rage head on, and doesn't invalidate it. I found myself blinking back tears on my walk home listening to the last few chapters.
I found the ending a little abrupt and too neat, and there were some elements that didn't sit right with me (the terrorism subplot, for one), but overall this hit me hard.
Although this isn't a light read, it is short. I highly recommend giving this a try, especially as an audio book.
There is so much emotion, especially anger, in this book. It's not something to be picked up lightly. But it tackles rage head on, and doesn't invalidate it. I found myself blinking back tears on my walk home listening to the last few chapters.
I found the ending a little abrupt and too neat, and there were some elements that didn't sit right with me (the terrorism subplot, for one), but overall this hit me hard.
Although this isn't a light read, it is short. I highly recommend giving this a try, especially as an audio book.