The price of her upbringing becomes clear: A human raised in the multihued, multiformed, always capricious Faerie High Court by the man who killed her parents, trained for intrigue and combat, recruited to a spy organization, and ultimately the power behind the coup and the latest High King, Jude no longer understands how to exist happily in a world that isn’t full of magic and danger. Junior’s keen cartoons sprinkle the pages as his fluid narration deftly mingles raw feeling with funny, sardonic insight.īroken people, complicated families, magic, and Faerie politics: Black’s back.Īfter the tumultuous ending to the last volume (marriage, exile, and the seeming collapse of all her plots), Jude finds herself in the human world, which lacks appeal despite a childhood spent longing to go back. their best friends” to “the tribe of tortilla chips-and-salsa lovers.” He also realizes how many other tribes he has, from “the tribe of boys who really miss. The reservation’s poverty and desolate alcoholism offer early mortality and broken dreams, but Junior’s knowledge that he must leave is rooted in love and respect for his family and the Spokane tribe. Rowdy rejects him, feeling betrayed, and their competing basketball teams take on mammoth symbolic proportions. Despite his parents’ frequent lack of gas money (they’re a “poor-ass family”), racism at school and many crushing deaths at home, he manages the year. Soon after they start freshman year, Junior boldly transfers from a school on the Spokane reservation to one in a tiny white town 22 miles away. Alexie nimbly blends sharp wit with unapologetic emotion in his first foray into young-adult literature.įourteen-year-old Junior is a cartoonist and bookworm with a violent but protective best friend Rowdy.
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