In the Night of Memory is a profound story about the lives of Azure Sky and Rainfall Dawn, young Native American women who are removed from their mother's care as small children and placed into foster care. After living through ups and downs they are tracked down, taken in and brought back to their home community as teenagers. I imagine that while this story is fiction, it has many undertones of reality in regards to some of the struggles the Native American community has faced. This book is beautiful, but it is sad, at some points it is devastating. These people had their homes, their land and their children taken away from them. Many lived in poverty without much means of advancing themselves. But one of the most inspirational things I took away from this book was the willingness of people in their community to take care of their own, or in Dolly's case, be taken care of as an adopted member of the community. Most of the story is told from Azure's point of view, but there are occasional chapters that briefly tell the story from another character's perspective. This both adds and detracts from the overall story for me, but overall it was a great book with emotional storytelling.