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one. Flight by Sherman Alexie. The first book written by him in ten years! It is so good! It's about an orphaned Indian teenager who travels back and forth through time "in a search for his true identity". His journey starts as he is about to commit a "massive act of violence." At that moment he finds himself shot back through time, in the body of an FBI agent. He continues his travels into several other lives, and when he is finally again in his own life he is a extremely changed. "This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant-making us laugh while he's breaking our hearts...In Flight he seeks nothing less than an understanding of why human beings hate. Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking Alexie."


two. St. Lucy's Home For Girl's Raised By Wolves by Karen Russell. Short stories. They were interesting. Weird. But good. Definitely original. St. Lucy's is probably the best one, which is probably why it's the title story. Other interesting titles are: Z.Z's Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers, The Star-Gazer's Log of Summer-Time Crime, and Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows. You should just read them and see if you like it, because I'm still not sure.



three. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. It's based in New York City in 1939. Sammy Clay lives there. His cousin Joe Kavalier has just escaped from Nazi occupied Prague and is looking to make quick money to bring his family over.
"Sammy is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the lastest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun."
It has interesting history, a lot of it from the point of view of the characters, which makes it more real. Charles Frazier (author of Cold Mountain") says, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is an important, generous, beautifully written book, rich in wit and detail, overbrimming with marvels of narrative invention."