First published 2008
Zits stands ready to commit an act of violence. The troubled foster teen lacks legal Indian status because his father never claimed him. He has learned what terror means. Then a gunshot sends him spinning backward through time. Zits awakens in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights movement. Next he becomes an Indian child at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He rides as an Indian tracker in the 1800s. He pilots a commercial airplane through modern skies. Each jump forces him to witness moments of brutality across American history. When Zits finally returns to his own teenage body in the present day, everything has changed. The journey through other lives has transformed him completely. Sherman Alexie crafts a story that moves between comedy and heartbreak, mixing contemporary struggles with historical violence.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, time-travel, 21st-century, native-american
Vibes: emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, time-travel
Setting: America, Battle of Little Bighorn, United States
Period: 1800s, Civil Rights Movement, Modern Day
4 pages · Audio CD · Blackstone Audiobooks
Content warnings: violence