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Title details for Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon - Available

Where They Last Saw Her

A Novel

by Marcie R. Rendon
Erin Tripp
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling mystery of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.

“Rendon shows how harm done to a marginalized community can reverberate through generations [as] the novel hurtles toward a breath-robbing conclusion.”—The New York Times Book Review

A WASHINGTON POST AND BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD
All they heard was her scream.
Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look like her. Just a girl when Jimmy Sky jumped off the railway bridge and she ran for help, Quill realizes now that she’s never stopped running. As she trains for the Boston Marathon early one morning in the woods, she hears a scream. When she returns to search the area, all she finds are tire tracks and a single beaded earring.
Things are different now for Quill than when she was a lonely girl. Her friends Punk and Gaylyn are two women who don’t know what it means to quit; her loving husband, Crow, and their two beautiful children challenge her to be better every day. So when she hears a second woman has been stolen, she is determined to do something about it—starting with investigating the group of men working the pipeline construction just north of their homes.
As Quill closes in on the truth about the missing women, someone else disappears. In her quest to find justice for all of the women of the reservation, she is confronted with the hard truths of their home and the people who purport to serve them. When will she stop losing neighbors, friends, family? As Quill puts everything on the line to make a difference, the novel asks searing questions about bystander culture, the reverberations of even one act of crime, and the long-lasting trauma of being considered invisible.

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    September 3, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593822999
      • File size: 239514 KB
      • Duration: 08:18:58

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Tlingit narrator Erin Tripp brings sorrowful resonance to this novel by Marcie R. Rendon, a member of White Earth Nation of Minnesota. The novel explores the individual tragedies that have given rise to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement. Quill, a long-distance runner, lives on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota called Red Pine. She's training for the Boston Marathon when she hears a woman scream. This is just the first disappearance in this chilling novel. Tripp's voice is gentle. Another narrator might have leaned into Quill's anger, but Tripp evokes the fear and grief felt by Quill and the whole community. From there, she finds Quill's resolve and resilience. Rendon's understated yet passionate performance will linger in listeners' ears. V.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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