Zits, a.k.a. Michael

Zits is the first-person narrator and protagonist of the book, who undergoes a significant emotional transformation during the unexplained mystical experience chronicled in the novel. Although Zits is in some ways an easygoing and even humorous teenager, he carries significant emotional scars for a number of reasons, including his identity as a racial minority (half Irish, half "Indian"), and also because he is physically and emotionally manipulated in the transient foster care system after becoming an orphan at a young age. After being fed up with his most recent, forgettable foster parents, Zits briefly ends up in jail, where he meets a mysterious and apparently intellectual friend named Justice, who convinces Zits to cruelly shoot up a downtown Seattle bank.

However, at the moment when Zits begins to perpetrate the crime, he suddenly begins an unexplained mystical experience, where he suddenly occupies the minds...