The Inner Turmoil In Flight Patterns

I truly enjoyed reading Flight Patterns. I feel it was descriptive of the inner turmoil that we all face in one way or another. The inner turmoil we may deal with regarding setting aside our cultural or religious ways to be more Americanized. The turmoil we may deal with when feeling one way, but also feeling the pressure from society to feel a different way. Our own inner turmoil on racial or gender issues.
Alexie was able to touch on these conflicting feelings and presumptions by following the everyday thoughts of an Indian business man and a Muslim black man on a normal morning commute to the airport. Alexie’s character, William, had many of the thoughts and beliefs, whether culturally bred into us or learned through life experiences,