Flight by Sherman Alexie — the story of an American Indian foster teenager who travels through time in search of his true identity — is the book incoming freshmen are reading this year in UNT’s One Book, One Community program. As part of the year-long program, they received free copies of Flight and will join small groups Sept. 16 to discuss the book and its themes of coming of age and understanding hatred and humanity.
Alexie is a poet and an author whose works also include the novels Reservation Blues and Indian Killer. He wrote the screenplay for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, about the relationship between a father and son. The Media Library in Chilton Hall will screen the movie at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 and will show The Exiles, which documents 12 hours in the lives of a group of Native Americans in Los Angeles, at 7 p.m. Oct. 6. Visit the One Book, One Community web site for information about other One Book events.