A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene tribal member who grew up on the reservation, Sherman Alexie (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) has garnered praise for his portrayals of contemporary Native American life. Flight concerns a troubled teen on a journey through moments of violence in American history. He surfaces as an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and rides with an Indian tracker before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today.