The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his
first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a
troubled foster teenager -- a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he
was never claimed by his father -- who learns the true meaning of
terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself
shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence
in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during
the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the
battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the
19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through
the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to
rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by
all he's seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant -- making us
laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply
humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight
is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.