Beautifully written story on a critical subject

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To be frank, there isn't enough out there addressing the epidemic of missing indigenous women and girls. In "In the Night of Memory," Linda LeGarde Grover takes the subject on -- and does so with exceptionally beautiful prose. Take this passage for example:

"I have forgotten our mother’s voice, yet I still hear her husky
whisper from the night she woke us to see the northern lights and
watch her dance, and it is this memory that I choose for us to keep,
whether it was just a dream or really happened. And so my mother
still whispers to me: when it starts to rain and drops of liquid quench
the thirst within the sparse leafiness of the old maple tree in the front
yard, the wet patter deepening on saturated leaves, rolling water onto
the dryness of exposed roots."

The first chapter is an absolutely heartbreaking account told from the perspective of Azure, recounting how she and her sister Rainy came to loose their mother Loretta when she surrendered them to the foster care system. It's hard to put down, and I was hooked into the story almost immediately. This is a must-read for me.