3.5 stars rounded up to 4 In July 1962, a Mi’kmaq family travels from Nova Scotia to Maine for the blueberry harvest. Before the summer ends, their four-year-old daughter vanishes. That single, devastating moment shapes the next fifty years. One family mourns in silence, clinging to faith and memory. In another household, a girl named Norma grows up troubled by vivid dreams that feel less like imagination and more like buried truth. Amanda Peters—of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry and winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose—writes with restraint and empathy. She explores loss, grief, and hope, but also the invisible tether that binds families together even when […]
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A Haunting Historical Novel of the US-Dakota War of 1862
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5 stars rounded up to 5) Samantha Specks’ Dovetails in Tall Grass is a deeply moving and beautifully written debut that brings to life one of the darkest and most overlooked events in American history—the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Inspired by the true story of the largest mass execution in U.S. history, Specks tells the story of two young women on opposite sides of the conflict: Emma Heard, a settler’s daughter, and Oenikika, a Dakota woman. Their lives collide as tensions rise, treaties are broken, and war devastates the Minnesota frontier. Specks’ writing is immersive and lyrical, painting a vivid portrait of 19th-century Minnesota while capturing the heartbreaking realities […]
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