In
Room, Emma Donoghue does a very good job of allowing her main character, Jack, describe the only life he's every known -- living captive in a small room with his mother. Publisher's Weekly pointed out that while there have been stories of captives, Donoghue goes further and we find out how Jack copes when he and Ma escape and he has to fit into the bigger world.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells of the first year a Native American teenager spends in high school after deciding to transfer from his reservation school to a largely white high school 20 miles away.
Google books describes the Winchester Book,
Sight Hound, as "the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who
teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the dog has always
known this). Dante is the catalyst for change in other characters as
well, and they step forward with their narratives: Rae's house-tender;
her therapist; two veterinarians; and an anxiety-ridden actor, Howard,
who turns out to be as stalwart as Dante himself."
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