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A review by jhutch1324
Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
4.0
Amazing fictional account of a very real issue faced by native women across the US.
Anna and Grace are sisters and young adults who are growing into womanhood. Just like a lot of other women in their community they are working at the resort on the Rez. Anna, as the oldest, started first and is trying to watch out for her baby sister but there are sinister men in their midst. Anna is almost positive her supervisor Fox is one of them and wants her sister to stay far away from him. Grace, as the younger sister is in the phase of her teen years where she is rebelling against not only her sister but also her own ideals as she is trying to figure out who she really is and who she wants to be.
Girls have been going missing for some time when we pick up with Anna and it's not long until someone close to her is the next missing girl. We follow Anna while she travels around and connects the dots between the missing girls, odd situations she's encountered at the resort and the old stories she's clung to from her old mentor, who herself was missing and found murdered in Anna's childhood.
Through this novel we learn about the plight of a lot of Native American women and how the rest of the population reacts and helps (or doesn't) them with this sadly ongoing problem.
I love how the author wove cultural elements from multiple tribes into it so that he didn't have to focus on one tribe which helped bring light to the problems faced across many tribes.
Anna and Grace are sisters and young adults who are growing into womanhood. Just like a lot of other women in their community they are working at the resort on the Rez. Anna, as the oldest, started first and is trying to watch out for her baby sister but there are sinister men in their midst. Anna is almost positive her supervisor Fox is one of them and wants her sister to stay far away from him. Grace, as the younger sister is in the phase of her teen years where she is rebelling against not only her sister but also her own ideals as she is trying to figure out who she really is and who she wants to be.
Girls have been going missing for some time when we pick up with Anna and it's not long until someone close to her is the next missing girl. We follow Anna while she travels around and connects the dots between the missing girls, odd situations she's encountered at the resort and the old stories she's clung to from her old mentor, who herself was missing and found murdered in Anna's childhood.
Through this novel we learn about the plight of a lot of Native American women and how the rest of the population reacts and helps (or doesn't) them with this sadly ongoing problem.
I love how the author wove cultural elements from multiple tribes into it so that he didn't have to focus on one tribe which helped bring light to the problems faced across many tribes.