Firekeeper’s Daughter is now a #1 New York Times bestseller in the young adult category. Boulley worked in education in Native communities for her entire adult life, doing the often thankless labor that keeps communities going.
Now, she’s written the she knows and loves onto the main stage of American culture.Firekeeper’s Daughter, a coming-of-age thriller, features one of the most outstanding girl protagonists I’ve read in decades of loving books about young people—Daunis Lorenza Firekeeper Fontaine is the daughter of a rich, white mother and a charismatic Native father from Boulley’s own Ojibwe tribe.
Boulley has said she was inspired by Nancy Drew stories. But the book reminded me, in the best way possible, of two other giants of young.
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