pickLoved this one (my first book of 2022). Did a combo of audiobook and ebook and the narration was 💯
jlhammar Good to know. I really want to read this one! 2y
Even As We Breathe: A Novel | 
pickLoved this one (my first book of 2022). Did a combo of audiobook and ebook and the narration was 💯
Started my #1stbookof2022
Doubling up with #audiobook and ebook.
Happy New Year!!
pickThat ending hits you right in the feels. ASC is from my community, tribe, and is a former boss of mine and this is an honest review. ᎣᏥᎨᏒ ᏃᎴ ᎠᎩᎸᏗ ᏍᏈᏍᏓ. ᎤᏙᏳ ᏃᏛᎦ ᎣᏍᏓ.
pickReally excellent debut fiction about a young Cherokee man trying to find his path in 1940s North Carolina. I just visited this area and found this work by a local author. Highly recommended - good characters and relationships, interesting time period and setting, and a little mystery. #indigenousauthors
pickThis book has been on my radar since Silas House (writer) posted about it on insta. I think he mentored Clapsaddle while she wrote this. Set in Cherokee & Asheville, NC, this is a coming-of-age story about Cowney Sequoyah, a Cherokee in 1942. Deals with racism, first love, loss, & his family history. A really good book.
I remember how uncomfortable I felt when I went to Cherokee as an adult about 10 years ago. I wanted to ask the guys 👇
pickThis book was part mystery part coming of age. During World War Two a young Native American man takes a summer job at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC to earn enough money to go to college. The Inn was used to house high ranking prisoners of war, and when the daughter of one goes missing all eyes fall on the guy with the brown skin. This short book is well worth a read.
1. Tagged & just finished a cozy mystery
2. I haven‘t read a romance lately, but I have skimmed Romancing Mr. Bridgerton. I‘ll go back & read it soon because I liked the story.
3. Jaime & Claire, Simon & Baz
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
These mountains have ingested our bones for centuries so that we might renew this soil with memory- memories of our people- our strengths and weaknesses- our losses and loves.
pickA beautiful book with beautiful writing and a beautiful main character. Cowney is just someone you want to love and protect. Set in Cherokee and the Grove Park Inn, my beautiful Pawpaw was never far from my mind. He wasn't Cherokee, but he was a person I loved and cherished, no matter the color of his skin. I'm proud to be of his bloodline. He was ashamed of being an Indian. Racists made him ashamed. Isn't he beautiful @megnews @sblbooks
pickA very beautiful story of a young Cherokee man's journey in life and its circumstances, his first and greatest love, his love of his grandmother, and his ties to his homeland.
What a heartfelt ending!
pickThis is a pretty spectacular debut novel. I was absolutely enthralled from line one. Gorgeous prose, wonderful characters - this is a gem that should not be overlooked.
#Booked2021 #AuthorsLastNameBeginsWithABOrC
pickWas lax posting at the end of 2020, but had to share this beautiful novel about a young Cherokee man working at Asheville's Grove Park in one summer during WWII, when the Inn has turned into a detainment center for high ranking prisoners of war and their families. When a young girl goes missing, a fish-out-of-water situation becomes something much more dangerous.
#integrateyourshelf #ownvoices
This book has one of the best prologues I've EVER read.
pickA young Cherokee man torn between two worlds, longing to leave home behind to find a place in the world but drawn back time and again.
