This book is amazing. It's classified as a YA thriller, but it's much deeper than that. I recommend it even if you don't typically read much YA.
Daunis is biracial, feeling like an outsider both in her mother's wealthy white family and as an unenrolled woman in the Ojibwe tribe. She is incredibly intelligent, excelling at science, thinking in terms of the scientific method, and correcting the misuse of Occam's Razor. And she pairs that with her practice of Ojibwe traditional medicine and culture. Daunis is also a remarkably good athlete who played hockey on the men's varsity team in high school until she graduated just before the start of the book.
The book packs a lot in, including discussions of drug abuse, per capita payments from casinos, colorism, and law enforcement on and off tribal lands. Most notably, it highlights missing and murdered indigenous women. It addresses each of these in a way that is incredibly powerful, as we see it all through Daunis's eyes.
I found the twists this book took riveting. I could not put it down and found myself skipping sleep to finish. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to read and learn from Daunis's story.
Daunis is biracial, feeling like an outsider both in her mother's wealthy white family and as an unenrolled woman in the Ojibwe tribe. She is incredibly intelligent, excelling at science, thinking in terms of the scientific method, and correcting the misuse of Occam's Razor. And she pairs that with her practice of Ojibwe traditional medicine and culture. Daunis is also a remarkably good athlete who played hockey on the men's varsity team in high school until she graduated just before the start of the book.
The book packs a lot in, including discussions of drug abuse, per capita payments from casinos, colorism, and law enforcement on and off tribal lands. Most notably, it highlights missing and murdered indigenous women. It addresses each of these in a way that is incredibly powerful, as we see it all through Daunis's eyes.
I found the twists this book took riveting. I could not put it down and found myself skipping sleep to finish. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to read and learn from Daunis's story.