Two struggling teens develop an unlikely relationship in a moving exploration of grief, suicide and young love.

The first-person narration reveals her internal monologue, allowing readers to learn what’s going on in her head as she encounters anti-Indian bias and deals with grief.Ī suspenseful tale filled with Ojibwe knowledge, hockey, and the politics of status. Daunis is a three-dimensional, realistically imperfect girl trying her best to handle everything happening around her. While dealing with tough topics like rape, drugs, racism, and death, this book balances the darkness with Ojibwe cultural texture and well-crafted characters.

While trying to figure out who is behind this, Daunis pulls away from her family, covering up where she has been and what she has been doing. Daunis spends her free time playing hockey with her Firekeeper half brother, Levi, but tragedy strikes, and she discovers someone is selling a dangerous new form of meth-and the bodies are piling up. She has grand plans for her future, as she wants to become a doctor, but has decided to defer her plans to go away for college because her maternal grandmother is recovering from a stroke. Marie, Michigan, teen is constantly adapting, whether she is with her Anishinaabe father’s side of the family, the Firekeepers, or the Fontaines, her White mother’s wealthy relatives. Testing the strength of family bonds is never easy-and lies make it even harder.ĭaunis is trying to balance her two communities: The Sault Ste. Lighter than Looking for Alaska (2005), deeper than An Abundance of Katherines (2006) and reminiscent of Gregory Galloway’s As Simple as Snow (2005)-a winning combination. Genuine-and genuinely funny-dialogue, a satisfyingly tangled but not unbelievable mystery and delightful secondary characters (Radar’s parents collect black Santas)-we’ve trod this territory before, but who cares when it’s this enjoyable? The clues lead to Margo’s physical location but also allow Q to see her as a person and not an ideal. Then Margo takes Q on a midnight adventure and disappears, leaving convoluted clues for Q. Now it’s senior year Margo is a legend and Q isn’t even a band geek (although quirky best friends Ben and Radar are). Quentin (Q) has loved Margo Roth Spiegelman since they were kids riding their bikes, but after they discovered the body of a local suicide they never really spoke again. Printz Medal Winner and Honoree Green knows what he does best and delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing look at a complex, smart boy and the way he loves.

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