“Flight takes its readers on a journey through time. Its narrator is a 15-year-old nicknamed Zits, a half-Native American, half-Irish young man who has been in and out of foster care since his father abandoned him shortly after he was born and his mother died when he was six. Zits is angry at the world. During one of his stints in jail, he meets "Justice." Justice persuades him to take his anger out by shooting a bank full of people. Zits commits the act like he is playing paint-ball. He is shot, and his spirit travels to different times and places to inhabit different people, from an FBI agent involved in bringing down a Native American civil rights group, to a elderly man leading a group of soldiers to an Indian camp to exact their vengeance, to a drunken Indian who also happens to be his father. This flight allows Zits to see into the lives of other human beings and realize that everyone has a story and a struggle. It develops his sense of empathy and washes away his anger, giving him the freedom to be happy. His spirit returns to his body at the point when he is about to commit the mass murder at the bank. Instead, he turns himself in and begins living with his new perspective on life.
While the novel could be further developed in places, I found it to be creative and highly entertaining.”
Aundrea C wrote this review Monday, June 22, 2009.
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