Rescheduled: One Book One Community 2022 Campus Read Book Launch
Firekeeper's Daughter Book Cover
Editor's Note: This event has been rescheduled at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, on the Union Mall.
The One Book One Community Committee is launching its 2022 campus reading campaign! Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley has been chosen as the 2022 read.
Boulley will be on campus in late October 2022 for two events as an early kick-off to Native American Heritage Month, which is in November.
The committee will also be having a launch party in the Union Mall with Burton's Ice Cream Truck at 2 p.m., Thursday, April 28. Come by and sign up to win a copy of the book to read this summer and grab an ice cream!
Keep an eye out in early fall for more events to be announced.
Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Boulley lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel and was an instant No. 1 New York Times Bestseller. It also won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature (teen category) in 2022.
In this riveting novel, a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine, has never quite fit in—both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When her family is struck by tragedy, Daunis puts her dreams on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother's hockey team.
After Daunis witnesses a shocking murder that thrusts her into a criminal investigation, she agrees to go undercover. But the deceptions — and deaths — keep piling up, and soon the threat strikes too close to home. How far will she go to protect her community if it means tearing apart the only world she's ever known?
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Contacts
Lauren Sabon, teaching associate professor
Department of Sociology and Criminology
479-575-3205,
copley@uark.edu
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