Sherman Alexie

"...There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.”

from Flight by Sherman Alexie

Ok, my mother doesn't read this blog so I will go ahead and say it:
 I love Sherman Alexie's work.
I found The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven in the 90s, and enjoyed it so much I kept reading. Mom would never read his work because he uses bad words, possibly for the shock effect, but possibly because that is the way so many people would say that very thing.  He has lately been in the public view defending this very kind of language and subject matter in young adult literature, saying it's the world in which many young folks already live.