Firekeeper's Daughter
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AuthorAngeline Boulley
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult fiction, Thriller, Mystery
PublisherHenry Holt and Co.
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| Author | Angeline Boulley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult fiction, Thriller, Mystery |
| Publisher | Henry Holt and Co. |
Publication date | March 16, 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 9781250766564 |
| Followed by | Warrior Girl Unearthed[1] |
Firekeeper's Daughter is a young adult novel by Angeline Boulley, published March 16, 2021, by Henry Holt and Co. The book is a New York Times best seller[2] and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2022.[3] The sequel, Warrior Girl Unearthed, was published in 2023.
The book follows Daunis Fontaine, a half-native, half-white young adult who witnesses her friend's murder and becomes involved in an FBI investigation revolving around a new drug.
Boulley, who is Ojibwe, spent 10 years working on the novel as she researched "the intricacies of illegal drugs, to law enforcement, to hockey, to the ways of her own tribe, the Ojibwe people."[4]
