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Narrated by:
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Carolina Hoyos
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Erin Tripp
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By:
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Vanessa Lillie
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.
There are secrets in the land.
As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land's indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own.
While Syd is dedicated to her job, she’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown 15 years ago. Though she swore she’d never go back, the past comes calling.
When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, vanishes, Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sister's disappearance, or the remains, go ignored—as so often happens in cases of missing Native women.
But not everyone is glad to have Syd home, and she can feel the crosshairs on her. Still, the deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.
The truth will be unearthed.
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Critic reviews
“Gripping…provides a valuable insider’s look at the injustices that continue to be part of daily life for many Native Americans.” —Washington Post
“Blood Sisters is about Syd and Emma Lou, as well as the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women whose cases are never solved, if they’re investigated at all.” —New York Times
"Just a few pages in and this novel is roaring with mystery, danger, anguish and regret. Lillie fuels her Native characters with hope, resentment, anger and despair…A crime novel's journey often runs toward escapism, but the best, like Blood Sisters, lead us on a path toward knowledge and discovery." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The story itself is captivating and kept me saying "one more chapter. " I will admit that I don't fully understand the side story with the wife and pregnancy in Rhode Island. I'm not entirely sure how it fits with abduction story in Oklahoma other than to give the character a present and to show the reader how the past has affected Syd.
I really enjoyed the book.
The author did Oklahoma proud.
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The tale of the contemporary 2–spirit woven into the fabric of the story is neither over, nor understated. A valuable + appreciated perspective.
Thanks Vanessa and for another scrape at some all too often overlooked surfaces. Well done. I hope it’s only the beginning.
A New Light
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I loved the way Sid went to the extreme to save her sister Emma Lou
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Heart wrenching
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Secrets and lies
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Horrifyingly true tobuistory
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Picher, Oklahoma
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A++++ Book
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A great page turner with a social message
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Writers can easily place you in the middle of the action!!
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