Whatever you’re facing – you can overcome it. That’s the message shared at Denny International Middle School this afternoon by Seattle-based best-selling author Sherman Alexie. With humor and honesty, he spoke to Denny students in a special all-school assembly at the end of the day, telling them about challenges he faced growing up on the Spokane Tribe of Indians‘ reservation in Eastern Washington on his way to becoming an acclaimed author (dating back to his first novel, “Reservation Blues,” which won an American Book Award in 1996.
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