This book is about the narrator, and we dont know his name, and he lives in a rezovation for native indians. He tells us about his best friend is called Rowdy. He gets beaten up a lot because he had brain damage and has physical deformities.

Rowley and the narrator have similar families in that they both are alcaholics and rowley’s are abusive to him.

The narrator is a smart kid who likes school and has no friends apartfrom Rowdy who is like his bodyguard as he is mad and strong. They were born on the same day and have a great bond between themselves.

The narrator is in eighth grade and he has a teacher named mister P. He breaks his nose and then the teacher opens up about his earlier life and the narrator’s sister.