We caught up with our talented and lovely friend Amber, an actor & poetry fan who’s been a longtime supporter of NDN Girls Book Club, to get her recent top reads. WE LOVE U AMBER! 🩷✨ Here’s what she suggests for your TBR!
STORYTELLER by Leslie Marmon Silko; see “Yellow Woman,” the classic short story about story, identity, and inheritance, in which a young woman awakens to find herself in a situation that blurs the lines between “myth” and reality. Storyteller, first published in 1981, blends original short stories and poetry with traditional tales and multimedia.
THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET by Kinsale Drake: This poetry collection, which won the National Poetry Series, tracks genealogies of music, memory, lineage, family stories, and pop culture across various landscapes, from New York jazz clubs where legends once sang to endless night skies swimming with stars.
MOTHER by m.s. redcherries is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family’s history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the reservation where she was born. This striking collection was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.
Purchase from an Indigenous bookseller:
🌵 Palabras Bookstore
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🪶Green Feather Books
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💧 Birchbark Books
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🌙 Iron Dog Books
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🌹 Black Walnut Books
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🐦 Quiet Quail Books
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🧚♀️ Paperbacks n Frybread
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🍓 Massy Books
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𓆩❤︎𓆪 NDN Girls Book Club is an organization run by Indigenous women and youth that promotes storytelling on every level. Since 2023, they have distributed more than 25,000 free books by Native authors across different Indigenous communities. See more at 𓆩❤︎𓆪
