Sherman Alexie Cornell lecture

Last night I attended Sherman Alexie’s lecture, called “The Partially True Story of a Part-Time Indian” at Cornell. Although it’s called a ‘lecture’, it was hilarious, and Alexie looked more like an entertainer than an author/lecturer. It was mainly based on his latest book for Young Adults, called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time [...]

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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian – Sherman Alexie

This book is the best I’ve read in a while. It’s about a cartoonist named Junior who lives in an Native American reservation. He narrates his story as he steps outside the hopeless condition of the rest of his people in search of a better education and a better future: he goes to a white [...]

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