Young Adult / Mystery

“I wrote Sisters in the Wind because the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, is under attack and –– SPOILER ALERT ––the battle has nothing to do with the best interests of the children.” (from the Author’s Note)

As a child Lucy was told she was Italian and it was only after her father died that she learned she was in fact Native American. Thrown into the foster care system she encounters a few good people and a whole lot of awful people. She does her very best to survive, to be a good person and to protect those who are weaker than she is but the system is against her at every turn.

When a Native American introduces himself at the diner where she works she finds out she has a mother who desperately wants to meet her, but others are searching for her with more malevolent intentions.

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The last page of this book left a vacuum. A silence. An emptiness. Angeline Boulley returns to the same world as Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed and just like those books there is a brilliant, entertaining story that hides within it profound lessons. Everyone will love this book but if I’m honest it is people like me, white men who need to read it.