Daughters of the Deer

I've read a lot of Indigenous fiction and about a fifth into the book my spidey senses were tingling that this was not written by an Indigenous author. I typically try not to read outside of an author's lived experience.

All that aside, I still didn't like this book. I don't know about the author's sexual identity, but as a queer person this book was depressing. Every chance the characters (especially the queer ones) had to succeed, they failed/were torn down.

On multiple levels this book felt like a trauma dump but without the lived experience to warrant the story being told.

Very moving work of historical fiction!! Ten out of ten would recommend! Definitely worth reading :)