Flight by Sherman Alexie (#33, Contemporary Literature)

Talk about a quick, yet powerful, read that hits on violence through the decades. "Zits" is our narrator and time traveler. A young boy, half native American, who has been shipped from foster home to foster home, he is struggling to fit in when he meets Justice. Justice teaches him that sometimes "hate can be empowering." Zits then finds himself with a gun in a crowded bank about to do something truly horrible.

I guess I will stop giving a synopsis of the book, but it's hard to explain without some background info. Basically, at the point Zits is about to shoot up the bank he instead is sucked through time and put into the body of various individuals in other times of hate and violence. He then sees the violence through his eyes, as well as the eyes of the body he is inhabiting.

At times it was hard to read because it really hits on how violent people are, and even more so who is right and who is wrong? When is revenge acceptable? If someone comes and kills your family are you justified in turning around and killing their innocent five year old daughter?

If you have a couple hours it is worth the time.