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18. by Cheryl Isaacs
19. by Nick Medina
20. by Stephen Graham Jones
21. by Stephen Graham Jones
When you are demonized as the other and/or when you must struggle with the constant fear of attacks by monsters (guys cruising in a car down the street who yell insults at you, for example), life can be scary. So people of many communities find comfort, strangely enough, in tales of horror, stories that make those fears manifest.
In The Unfinished, the loner Avery realizes she must listen to her Elders in order to confront the literal monster threatening her small town. With Indian Burial Ground, Nick Medina upends all the cliches about…Indian burial grounds (hello, Poltergeist!) with the story of a young woman who leaves the rez, but the rez won’t leave her. And superstar author Stephen Graham Jones triumphantly finishes off his acclaimed Indian Lake Trilogy and delivers a Young Adult thriller from the perspective of a teen serial killer.
Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) celebrates her Kanian’kéha culture with this, her debut novel. Nick Medina is a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. Stephen Graham Jones is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.
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22. by Robin Wall Kimmerer; illustrated by John Burgoyne
Robin Wall Kimmeer enjoyed one of the unlikeliest hits in years with her book Braiding Sweetgrass. A celebration of Indigenous wisdom, it proved a word of mouth sensation. Eleven years later, Kimmerer returns with The Serviceberry, out November 19. It too combines her sharp observations as a scientist (she has a PhD in plant ecology) with Native practices and insights. The result is a book that uses the humble serviceberry as a model for sustainable living and a way forward in alignment with nature.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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