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Violence
Some
Moderate; a disappearance that may involve violence, and the community trauma around it
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; reservation community drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; the psychological complexity of collective silence, community guilt, and the weight of knowing something you won't say
What this book is about
Kent Meyers's literary fiction novel is set in the South Dakota badlands and told in multiple voices as a community tries to understand the disappearance of a teenage girl. Meyers writes about the landscape with the authority of someone who knows it intimately, and about the social dynamics of a small reservation community navigating the gap between what people know and what they'll say.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Missing person thriller
Reservation community dynamics
Psychological complexity
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