Reading the Rainbow: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

About this event

Off Site, New Albany Main Library. Join us to discuss an LGBTQ themed book each month. This discussion is open to all adults; members of the LGBTQ community and allies are welcome. We meet in person at the IU Southeast Library (4201 Grant Line Rd). Print copies of the books are available at the Floyd County Library Upper Customer Service Desk. About the book: (For content warnings, check out the book's page on StoryGraph and scroll to the bottom) Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.

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