True

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True is written by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr. and published by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0805981586 (ISBN 10) and 9780805981582 (ISBN 13).

True is the author’s debut novel, a suburban American Indian coming-of-age story set in Tours, France in 1985, whose theme is self-discovery. Despite being influenced by a number of 20th-century classics in this genre of literature, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, John Knowles’ Paragon, and Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.’s coming-of-age novel is strikingly different in that it memorializes what it was like to attend Stanford University and study abroad in France, as an assimilated mixed-blood Lakota Catholic preppy, in the mid-1980’s. In True, the main character of Tom Spotted Tail Augustine Stearns, a child of de jure desegregation and the federal American Indian policy of relocation (from reservations to seven U.S. cities), is forced to face and address, through the prism of his ethnic identity, gentleman’s education, and Catholic faith, the pressing issues of his day, concerning race, class, religion, nationality, sexuality, and AIDS, especially as they relate to his everyday experience, moral formation, and personal relationships. In the course of his Stanford-in-Tours studies, weekend clubbing, day trips to Paris, collegiate friendships, sexual temptations, and falling in love, not to mention his Grand Tour of Italy and other travels, Tom journeys inward and, in the process, comes face to face with what it means to be true.