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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
87 reviews
aparizo704's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Racism, Grief, and Gun violence
Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Child death
czarnecki362's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Blood, and Murder
ronanmcd's review against another edition
4.5
There can never really be justice on stolen land. These murders are within living memory, just about. And then they were well within living memory of manifest destiny, land grabs, the trail of tears etc. It's all a very American story, and not at all unfamiliar. But it's no less shocking or saddening.
Graphic: Xenophobia, Genocide, Murder, Violence, and Gun violence
alvaradoms's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Murder
Moderate: Child death
jjyork's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Murder and Genocide
kylasmv15's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Murder, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Genocide
Minor: Vomit
dev921's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Grief, Classism, and Domestic abuse
kelseyfactorial's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Murder and Racism
Moderate: Genocide
nat_montego's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racial slurs, Murder, Genocide, Death, and Racism
jhbandcats's review against another edition
5.0
Killers of the Flower Moon is an especially difficult book to read, not because of the writing but because the subject is so painful. Grann documents how literally hundreds of Osage were murdered for riches in the early 20th C. As American Indians, their lives were worth less than that of dogs. An entire corrupt and venal society was arrayed against them. Well aware they were systematically being murdered, they had no recourse. The authorities, both political and legal, were complicit in the murders. No one would help save them from eradication.
This is an excellent telling of a dark and shameful time in our history. If only this much attention had been paid a hundred years ago some of the Osage who were murdered might have lived.
Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Gore, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Abandonment, Blood, and Child death