Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley glitters with gold. This novel is a journey through the Native American Ojibwe community and its culture but it is a universal human experience loaded with betrayal, death, love, and self-discovery. 18 year old Daunis Fontaine, the protagonist, struggles with who she is with biracial prejudices all around her, plus she's a brilliant scientist nerd struggling with her femininity against the backdrop of her desires for a guy she cannot truly trust and another who already betrayed her and then there is her brother, Levi, the son of the mother who cheated with Daunis's father. Then, let's tie in federal agents and a big meth drug ring to spice up the danger in this book. Yes, this book does not feel like a debut from Boulley, but a literary gift to readers willing to explore culture, understand betrayal, love and forgiveness. Beautiful.
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