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The Firekeeper's Daughter (UK)

Author: Boulley, Angeline
ISBN: 9780861540907
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Publisher,Oneworld Publications
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 420 g
No. of Pages, 500

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions--and deaths--keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she'll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she's ever known.

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Ilham
Amazing

The characters are fantastic and unique and the story line is beyond intriguing, compelling, and wonderfully complex.

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faizul
The Firekeeper's Daughter

What a journey I’ve been on in this book. It was hard to put down and I often found myself engaged into the story longer than I meant to be - causing late meals and late bedtimes! I’ve learned so much. This book weaves in Indigenous culture & traditions, a crime mystery, and the strength of women. While I do love a good crime novel, it is the way Angeline Boulley shines a light to educating the reader about Indigenous communities, culture, language and traditions. While the book also reveals the negative effects colonization has had in Indigenous communities, resilience and hope is strong in Boulley’s words and through the story of Daunis, the young Firekeeper. I am a white settler and a teacher in Canada, on Treaty 4, and while the book’s setting is in an Indigenous community in the US, the learning and unlearning that I experienced in reading this novel is one that I’ll take with me in my community and into my classrooms. I’ll be sitting with what I’ve read and I’ll definitely be reading this book again.