please welcome sherman alexie.lause) thank you so much for being here. >> thank you, it's great to be here. >> trevor: let's talk about the book immediately. i mean i'm a very quick reader. i read it in one day. >> did you take a course, speed reading. >> trevor: i did. i did. i looked through the pictures and i was like i've got. this i've got this book. >> it's like 125 words. >> trevor: it is really different from your normal work. why go from being an author to writing a kid's book. >> what i really loved is with my young adult novel, i would get letters from teens saying things like this is the first book i ever read. or this is the first book i ever loved. and that was so amazing to hear that. that i thought i want to write, you know, something for kids even younger to get that feeling. >> trevor: this say book about a young boy who has the name of his father, right. and you had the same thing. >> i am sherman alexie, jr. and the genesis of this book came at my father's funeral in 2003, where i happened to be

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