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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
5.0
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley is the #ownvoices First People novel we've been waiting for an eon to experience. Boulley deftly crafts a harrowing mystery that combines the misery of a drug-addled small town in the UP, a budding forbidden romance, the love and loss of a best friend, the politics of living in a hockey-town, and all the ways the ones we love can let us down, and us let them down in return in beautiful prose that will haunt me for quite some time.
Boulley's novel is unapologetically Anishinaabe and critically and lovingly examines the complexity of being a Nish woman in the modern age. Her novel reveals the intense prejudices and problems still afflicting our indigenous communities, but in particular, our women. The entire novel revolves around relationships that the protagonist shares with those in her community, her complicated family, her friend circle, and with her former teammates. All of those relationships are seismically shifted one night when an irrevocable choice is made right before Daunis's eyes.
Aside from the harrowing topics broached and explored, Boulley threads so much authenticity into Firekeeper's Daughter. And while the traditional topics are addressed, this book is so much more than the problems that plague us, it is a celebration of a culture that refuses to be silent and accept defeat.. It's a lee-lee into the void "for every girl and woman pushed into the abyss of expendability and invisibility" and the knowledge that we are not alone.
Boulley's novel is unapologetically Anishinaabe and critically and lovingly examines the complexity of being a Nish woman in the modern age. Her novel reveals the intense prejudices and problems still afflicting our indigenous communities, but in particular, our women. The entire novel revolves around relationships that the protagonist shares with those in her community, her complicated family, her friend circle, and with her former teammates. All of those relationships are seismically shifted one night when an irrevocable choice is made right before Daunis's eyes.
Aside from the harrowing topics broached and explored, Boulley threads so much authenticity into Firekeeper's Daughter. And while the traditional topics are addressed, this book is so much more than the problems that plague us, it is a celebration of a culture that refuses to be silent and accept defeat.. It's a lee-lee into the void "for every girl and woman pushed into the abyss of expendability and invisibility" and the knowledge that we are not alone.