Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold to care for 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, certain details… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Ableism
- Misogyny
- Fatmisia
- Racism & racial slurs
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual assault, on-page
- Rape, on-page
- Cheating recounted
- Child abuse & neglect mentioned
- Substance addiction discussed
- Nightmares
- Suicide by a gunshot to the head, on-page
- Alcohol consumption
- Drug use & abuse (theme)
- Overdose mentioned
- Teen pregnancy recounted
- Grandparent recovering from a stroke
- Physical injuries, including nerve damage & chronic shoulder injury
- Hospitalisation for internalised bleeding & liver damage
- Surgery mentioned
- Emesis
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of an uncle
- Death of a father
- Murder of a friend & teenager by gun violence, on-page
- Car accident, on- & off-page
- Bullying
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