White Rock Hills Book Club: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie

The White Rock Hills Book Club meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month and is open for anyone to join in (even if you haven't read the selection)!

For this month's selection, and in honor of Banned Books Week, we will be reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie. As a note, this book has been banned due to shocking words of profanity, sexual innuendo and violence.

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

And to register for other meetings of the White Rock Hills Book Club, please click on the links below.

Thursday, October 13: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Thursday, November 10: Mecca by Susan Straight

Thursday, December 8: The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes

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