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Flight : A Novel by Sherman Alexie; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Flight : A Novel about?

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he’s never met, especially disconnected from other Indians. After he runs away from his latest foster home, he makes a new friend. Handsome, charismatic, and eloquent, Justice soon persuades Zits to unleash his pain and anger on the uncaring world. But picking up a gun leads Zits on an unexpected time-traveling journey through several violent moments in American history, experiencing life as an FBI agent during the civil rights movement, a mute Indian boy during the Battle of Little Bighorn, a nineteenth-century Indian tracker, and a modern-day airplane pilot. When Zits finally returns to his own body, “he begins to understand what it means to be the hero, the villain and the victim. . . . Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of m

Who reads Flight : A Novel?

Author

Sherman Alexie; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802170378

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Social Science

Rating

4.5 / 5 (1,114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14