Angeline Boulley and her debut novel Firekeeper s Daughter
| Credit: courtesy; Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Firekeeper s Daughter to be the spark that turns into an inferno.
The author s groundbreaking debut novel follows Daunis Fontaine, an Ojibwe teen struggling with her identity after she witnesses a shocking murder and gets thrust into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug affecting Native tribes. I m writing something that very much celebrates my community, Boulley tells EW. When I was growing up, I never read a story with a main character like myself. I never read a story with a character that had a Native dad and a non-Native mom, and the kinds of things that I had to deal with. But I couldn t be alone there had to be other people who go through similar things in claiming your identity as a Native person and the things that you go through to get to that place of certainty where you re like, I am an Ojibwe woman, and being very proud of that and secure i