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This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.” Today, I’m recommending Winter Counts, a remarkable debut novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, a member of the Lakota Nation of South Dakota. At first glance it’s an action-packed, gritty thriller, but Weiden also explores many social issues faced by Native Americans. Virgil Wounded Horse is the novel’s flawed but endearing main character. He’s a vigilante, and his job is to bring justice to Native people who have nowhere else to turn. The Federal government often ignores crimes committed on the reservation, and tribal police can’t prosecute felonies. That’s where Virgil comes in. He enjoys administering justice, with his fists, to men who hurt women and children. Sounds grim, right? But oddly enough, the book has many humorous moments as well. ....
Listen to Barb Gross as she recommends Scaled by J.T. Ashmore. This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.” Today, I’m recommending Scaled , Book One of the Deep Skin young adult trilogy by J.T. Ashmore, which is a pen name for two brilliant local writers you may recognize. Tricia Currans-Sheehan and Jeanne Emmons, both well-known for their years at Briar Cliff University, teamed up to write Scaled and the other two books in this science fiction series. In the opening scene of the book, a meteor carrying alien DNA strikes the Earth in the Midwest. Zack, a teenager living close to the crash site, rushes out to investigate and becomes “infected.” He and many other teens start to develop iridescent scales on their bodies, which causes widespread alarm among authorities who fear that the condition is contagious and could be the start of a pandemic. ....
2:00 Listen to Barb Gross as she recommends Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.” Today, I’m recommending Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Pulitzer-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson. A friend told me this book had “gobsmacked” her, giving her a profound new perspective on the racial constructs that divide America. Wilkerson’s well-researched premise is that America has a caste system, similar to India’s and even Nazi Germany’s. She writes, “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theatre, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power – which groups have it and which do not.” ....