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 in your identity."