Dec 29, 2009

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Related Titles and Adaptations

Nick Hornby (acclaimed author of About a Boy and High Fidelity) has written a novel, Slam, about a fifteen-year-old skateboarder who gets his girlfriend pregnant. Hornby, like Alexie, is great at mixing humor with other strong emotions. Reviewers give this young adult novel a thumbs-up.

Douglas Coupland’s 1996 novel Microserfs is a funny book about computer geeks who get together and try to find meaning in life outside of their normally digitalized settings. The story is told through the twenty-six-year-old protagonist’s online journal. The book...