![]() Junior includes his humorous drawings throughout the novel, offering further insight into how he sees the world. He dreams of becoming a great cartoonist, and he believes making art is the only way he might someday escape the reservation. Mostly Junior stays home and draws cartoons of his family and his best friend, Rowdy. On the reservation, his peers bully him for his differences, and he is frequently beaten up. As a child, he grew 42 teeth (and had 10 pulled) and had frequent seizures as a 14-year-old, he has a stutter and a lisp, a large head, and poor eyesight for which he wears thick glasses. ![]() Born with hydrocephaly and expected to die in infancy, Junior survived with several lasting effects. The book is in first-person diary format, narrated by Arnold “Junior” Spirit Jr., a 14-year-old American Indian and aspiring cartoonist who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. ![]()
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