Firekeeper's Daughter

Two therapy clients recommended this to me in one week, so I figured I'd better get to it ASAP! This is just so, so good. One could hardly wish for a better hero that Daunis Firekeeper, plus everything else a person could want in fantastic YA: a fast-paced plot, lovingly crafted and complex characters, zero underestimation of teenage intelligence and wisdom, and, in this case, Boulley's centering of Ojibwe history and culture as healing and resilience. There are times when her writing style feels a tiny bit didactic/overly expositional, but that's the smallest of quibbles. I bought her second book at the same time, and am glad I did, because I wanted to hear more from the Firekeeper women right away!