Angeline Boulley
Autore di Firekeeper's Daughter
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: via author's website
Opere di Angeline Boulley
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Chippewa
- Agente
- Faye Bender
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
VBL YA (1)
READ IN 2022 (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 2,884
- Popolarità
- #8,884
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 130
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 8
Firekeeper’s Daughter is a contemporary YA mystery by award-winning debut author Angeline Boulley who is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and brings us a story about her Ojibwe community.
Boulley describes her protagonist, 18 year old Daunis Fontaine, as an Ojibwe Nancy Drew. Daunis grows up in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the daughter of a wealthy white mother and her father’s Firekeeper family of Annishinaabe from Sugar Island. As she struggles to find acceptance from either community, she embraces her passions of science, hockey and the Ojibwe culture. Daunis is soon thrown headlong into a mystery, as tragedy follows tragedy with methamphetamine tearing apart her community and dear ones winding up dead. Daunis is taken on by the FBI as a community investigator and finds herself searching for answers to who is behind the destruction. As Daunis searches for answers she also finds herself fighting an attraction to the mysterious new stranger in town.
I found this an enjoyable read. It was wonderful to read a positive contemporary story with a Native American lead which gave insight into the beauty of the culture and its practices. I loved her badass Aunt Teddie. The story does highlight the tragedy of both physical and sexual violence against Native American women but still shows them as strong and resilient. There were a few YA moments for me, with the instalove and fake boyfriend tropes and a definite “I’m not like the other girls” tone to it, but overall an engaging story which will make a riveting watch when it makes it to the big screen.
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