Flight

By: Sherman Alexie

Narrated by: Adam Beach

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy - "Zits" - who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer.

The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to awaken in the body of an FBI agent during the civil-rights era. It's only the first stop. He continues through time to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then rides with an 1800s Indian tracker before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today.

During these furious travels, his refrain is: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans." When he returns to his own life, he is transformed by all he's seen.

©2007 Sherman Alexie (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Captivating...one quickly surrenders to Zits' voice, which elegantly mixes free-floating young adult cynicism with a charged, idiosyncratic view of American history. Alexie plunges the book into bracing depths." ( Publishers Weekly)

wonderful magical realism

A beautiful written story of an abandoned teen processing an incredibly cruel life. Complex storytelling that carries you along. Great narration just adds to a remarkable experience with a life most people would choose not to hear about.

Deep and Hearfelt

Loved the surprise ending. The main character explores many harsh realities, this listen was time well spent.

You must read this

This book is honest, thought provoking and entertaining at the same time. wonderfully narrated.

Hits every emotion at least once

wasn't too sure about this book at first with the main character going by the name Zits, lol, but once I started listening I couldn't stop.

Search ends

I order somewhere around 30 audible titles a year. Every now and then I luckily stumble across a book like this. Within the first five minutes I knew I'd snagged a total winner. Amazing book. Well narrated. Everything.

Great Narrator

Great book. Wonderful narration. I'm glad that Adam Beach collaborated again with Sherman Alexie. He had already done some fine work for him in the film "Smoke Signals".
Also I will try to comment on some interesting points that Heather remarked on the book. First, she pointed out that Zits trust someone in less that 12 hrs when he usually trust nobody. Well in my opinion he is alone and has nobody in life and many people in need or who lack some meaning in their lives will be instantly attached to someone who is willing to listen and who somehow can answer all of their questions. Many people in need will do anything to be always listened or accepted by this person (unfortunately a lot of the wrong people are aware of this).
Second point, she finds that Zits has an unjustifiable "deep connection to the Indian side of his heritage". I think that this can be somehow justified because he is trying to fill a great void in his life and probably his Indian face and looks encourage him to find out more about himself (or the part of himself that he is missing) and probably that's why he tries to get as much info on this subject as he can, that's why he watches films on History Channel and hangs out with Indian drunks.

Well written

This is a very quick and well written book. The performance was also great. Highly recommend.

Beautiful!

This book was absolutely fantastic! I want to listen to it again. The narrator was great too! Well done.

So good!!!

Such a good story! I didn't realize how good of a writer Sherman Alexie is!

Read this now

The only bad thing about this book is that it's only four hours. This big was great with its array of emotions and the title character. I cried, I laughed I was excited and surprised.