The Mountaineer Reading Room

Yesterday I wandered through the literature (!) section at Costco and saw a large stack of the aforementioned new book by Sherman Alexie. Submitting to the Costco business model of the impulse purchase, I picked up a copy, planning to read it over the next few days. However, once I got started, I couldn’t put it down and I have to agree with my friend who predicts that this novel will stand up over time as a classic young-adult novel. Actually, it’s more of a semi-fictionalized memoir than a novel–something entirely appropriate in a work that effectively captures the frustration, confusion, humor and beauty of the in-between days of adolescence.

You’ll want to read this one. I might need to go back to Costco for seconds.