Read Recently: “Flight” by Sherman Alexie
Title: “Flight”
Author: Sherman Alexie.
Synopsis: Teenage Indian hoodlum, bounced from nth foster home, finds he can travel through time to crucial points in Indian history and that of his own family.
Backstory: I wiould read Sherman Alexie transcribing episodes of According to Jim.
Verdict: A quick, funny dark read but Alexie can do better. The prose feels route and sing-songy and it doesn’t contain the longing of Long Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven or the lonely majesty of Reservation Blues. In the hands of debut author, Flight would be their finest hour. In the hands of a champion like Sherman Alexie, it’s a pause on the road to better things.