Excellent, deeply emotional story

This is a very emotional, and real story. There is so much honesty in how the characters are portrayed. So much detail, about the lives of these two girls who are surrendered at such a young age by their mother to the county. This is a story about two girls who are strong and caring, as they make their way through the system and to adulthood without ever seeing their mother again or knowing her fate. It breaks your heart but at the same time the family that they eventually are taken into (which is their own extended family, actually) gives the reader an idea of how much they are loved and how strong family ties are and how important family and tradition is in the Native American lives. I love how this story was told in multiple points of view.