A gripping reminder for our "post-racial" generation that the civil rights movement was about something more than drinking fountains and seats on buses.

Part powerful coming of age story, part portrait of life on the Rez in the 80s, part illumination of the struggles between the forces of native, state, and federal law enforcement and the particular issue of violence against native women, this is a lovely novel. This is no grocery store who-done-it and you do yourself and the author a disservice approaching it as if it is.

All of these books are being added to my To Read list. August is trying very hard to break my new book budget.

Still have the problem of more books than shelves.