Angeline Boulley’s debut novel Firekeeper’s Daughter was my favorite book of 2021, so I absolutely could not wait to jump into another book featuring the Firekeeper family of Sugar Island, this time set in 2014. The protagonist of Firekeeper’s Daughter, Daunis Fontaine, has a smaller role in this novel, as her cousin Perry Firekeeper-Birch takes…
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley is a debut novel and groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. I ugly cried my way through the ending of this book at 5:30 a.m. after reading all night, which I hope is enough of a recommendation for readers who…
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden is a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life as well as a groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. It has been over five years since…
Hearts of the Missing is the debut novel from 2017 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Carol Potenza and marks the first mystery in the Nicky Matthews series. When a young woman linked to a list of missing Fire-Sky tribal members commits suicide, Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case. As the evidence leads her to…
