april’s pick for our #alltheradreadsbookclubwas this haunting and all too real story of native girls going missing, by @nickmedinawrites, member of the tunica-biloxi tribe. it’s part mystery, part thriller/horror, part family drama, part crime novel, and i flew through it as the chapters jumped through time to piece together when and how anna’s sister went missing and how it all happened on the rez and in the hotel where they worked. 

i really appreciated the author’s note in this one, with his thoughts about the reality and tragedy of how so, so many native girls and women have gone and still go missing without enough (if any) care, coverage, police involvement, awareness, and ultimately, resolutions, reunifications, and, ideally, prevention of it happening in the first place. it’s devastating and such a display of racism and white privilege and colonialism and so many other sicknesses in our world. i’m glad stories like this exist to help make more people aware and to help turn the tides toward a safer, more just world where this doesn’t happen and all of our sisters and daughters are safe. (lord, let it be so.) 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this one that will stay with me!