Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of Sisters of the Lost Nation in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: April 18, 2023
Summary:
A young Native girl’s hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe’s reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut.
Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation’s casino…and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step–an ancient tribal myth come-to-life, one that’s intent on devouring her whole.
With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. As girls begin to go missing and the tribe scrambles to find answers, Anna struggles with her place on the rez, desperately searching for the key she’s sure lies in the legends of her tribe’s past.
When Anna’s own little sister also disappears, she’ll do anything to bring Grace home. But the demons plaguing the reservation–both ancient and new–are strong, and sometimes, it’s the stories that never get told that are the most important.
Part gripping thriller and part mythological horror, author Nick Medina spins an incisive and timely novel of life as an outcast, the cost of forgetting tradition, and the courage it takes to become who you were always meant to be.
My thoughts:
This is such a powerful, important story that Nick Medina has told here. It brings much needed awareness to the heartbreaking reality of the many missing & murdered Indigenous females…and this is only his debut! Color me impressed!
Anna, our main character, will stop at nothing to find out what has happened to her sister once she realizes she has gone missing. Told over the course of 36 days, and through flashbacks to the past, we have a haunting novel that weaves myth, lore and mystery.
While this story is fiction, it is rooted in fact, making it all the more compelling. It’s a story that stays with you long after you finish the book and those are some of my absolute favorites! I cannot recommend it enough and will absolutely be reading more from this uber talented author!
Audio thoughts:
I enjoyed listening to this audiobook, though I will say with the nonlinear timeline, it did take me a minute to adjust to the time hops. The narrator, Elva Guerra, does a great job bringing the story to life and I loved that the author himself read the author’s note.
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