Fifteen year old "Zits" is a half Irish-half Native American who has bounced around 20 different foster homes after the death of his mother when he was six. Because his father never claimed him, he has no status as a Native American and is ineligible for assistance via that route. He was thrown out by his aunt at age 10 after trying to kill her molester boyfriend. Zits ultimately finds himself about to commit a horrible deed during a crime and suddenly finds himself traveling backwards in time, inhabiting the bodies of people present for horrific moments of violence in history including the Battle of Little Big Horn, traveling with an Indian tracker, the civil rights era, and as a flight instructor who teaches a terrorist how to fly a plane. Zits returns from this historic sojourn a changed boy and one who finds there is someone who can care about him after all. I listened to the excellent audio version read by the actor Adam Beach, the First Nations Canadian actor who appeared in the film version of Alexie's "Smoke Signals" and as Officer Jim Chee in the PBS adaptations of Tony Hillerman's "Leaphorn & Chee" mysteries.
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