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Violence
Some
Drug violence and some physical danger in the undercover investigation
Language
Some
Adult language in Boulley's YA thriller register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild YA romantic content
Substance Use
A lot
The methamphetamine crisis on the reservation is the novel's entire subject; significant drug use depicted
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological weight of being between worlds — Native and non-Native — and the betrayal of undercover work in one's own community gives the novel its distinctive and powerful dimension
What this book is about
Angeline Boulley's debut YA thriller follows Daunis, half-Ojibwe, who witnesses a murder and agrees to work with the FBI to expose a methamphetamine ring that is devastating her Anishinaabe community. Boulley writes with extraordinary cultural specificity and emotional honesty; the drug crisis on Native American reservations is depicted with unflinching truth. Some violence and a significant drug operation are central to the novel.
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