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All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on—just like her beloved Uncle Louie before her—things are finally looking up for Noemi. Until the news of her boyfriend’s apparent suicide brings her world crumbling down.
But the facts about Roddy’s death just don’t add up, and Noemi isn’t the only one who suspects that something menacing might be lurking within their tribal lands.
After over a decade away, Uncle Louie has returned to the reservation, bringing with him a past full of secrets, horror, and what might be the key to determining Roddy’s true cause of death. Together, Noemi and Louie set out to find answers...but as they get closer to the truth, Noemi begins to wonder whether it might be best for some secrets to remain buried.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593826218
- File size: 363043 KB
- Duration: 12:36:20
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Gary Farmer (Cayuga Nation) and Erin Tripp (Lingt Deisheetaan) narrate the intertwined strands of this examination of Indigenous trauma by Nick Medina (Tunica-Biloxi tribe of Louisiana). In 1986, 16-year-old Louie, portrayed by Farmer, sees evidence of the supernatural in the string of deaths that beset the fictional Takoda reservation; in 2023, Louie's 40-year-old niece, Noemi, grapples with a loved one's apparent suicide. Tripp demonstrates her range, her clear voice evincing disbelief, grief, and self-recrimination. Sadly, Farmer's slow, grandfatherly delivery is better suited to the occasional embedded folktale than to the horror-inflected coming-of-age story itself. Listeners who can get over the jarring tonal whiplash as the voices alternate will be rewarded for their persistence. V.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine -
September 13, 2024
Medina (Sisters of the Lost Nation) returns with a blend of horror and mystery, set on a Louisiana reservation, with characters trapped between supernatural horrors and everyday circumstances. Noemi Broussard didn't expect much out of life on the reservation, but then she found Roddy. Just as they were preparing for their new life, Roddy is found dead of an apparent suicide. After years away, Noemi's uncle Louie returns home, bringing secrets from the past that may explain what happened to Roddy. Louie and Noemi work together to uncover the truth, even as they risk unearthing something more terrible. Though Medina offers up chilling folkloric horror, his real talent is in depicting real-life horrors like alcohol use disorder and suicide and how they affect many Indigenous communities. Moving seamlessly between past and present, the narratives are made distinct by Haudenosaunee/Iroquois narrator Gary Farmer as Louie and Tlingit narrator Erin Tripp as Noemi. Both narrators fully inhabit the characters and enhance the story's dread-filled atmosphere. VERDICT Medina explores how generational trauma takes root in a family and on a reservation. Much like Indigenous horror writers Stephen Graham Jones and Erika T. Wurth, Medina demonstrates how to write a story with both horror and heart.--James Gardner
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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