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|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

|sort=Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The

|publisher=Andersen Press

|date=January 2015

|website=http://fallsapart.com/

|summary=A powerful coming-of-age story, full of so much life – hope, despair, humour, grief and love - that makes for a mesmerising read.

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Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he lives, is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby town of Reardan, is a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservation, and it is a path that he must walk for the sake of not just his future, but that of his tribe.