Flight by Sherman Alexie
182 pages
Published 2007
Read October 25
Rating: ★★★½ out of 5
Flight is a work of profound empathy: empathy for cheaters and deadbeats, empathy for alcoholics and would-be spree killers, empathy for US cavalrymen massacring Indian camps, empathy for terrorists flying planes into city centers. Alexie's ability to generate such empathy again and again, each time within a handful of pages -- all while employing a recognizable cousin of the flippant teenage narrative voice I found so off-putting in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -- is astonishing. While some of the answers here are too easy, too obvious (we all need love, we all need acceptance, we all need a place), that doesn't make any of the questions less moving, any less vital.
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