Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country / by Sierra Crane Murdoch.
Record details
- ISBN: 0399589155
- ISBN: 9780399589157
- ISBN: 9780399589157
- ISBN: 0399589155
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The brightest Yellow Bird -- Missing -- Oil kings -- The great mystery -- What good is money if you end up in hell -- The flyer -- The church -- What she broke -- Sarah -- The search -- The gunman -- Confessions -- Us against the world -- The Badlands -- The body -- Shauna -- What they say we loved. |
Summary, etc.: | "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and no one but his mother was actively looking for him. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds -- that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oil workers, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit becomes an effort at redemption -- an atonement for her own crimes and a reckoning with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and -- when it serves her cause -- manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | 364.152 MUR (Text) | 34014147241377 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | 364.152 MUR (Text) | 33120000395761 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 364.1523092 YELLOW BIRD MURDOCH (Text) | 32544072579120 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | 363.2336/MURDOCH (Text) | 34029146006878 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | 364.152 Mur (Text) | 33180141817875 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | 364.152 MUR (Text) | 34047144283562 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | 364.1523 MURDOCH, SIERRA CRANE (Text) | 37777123592727 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | 364.1523 MURDOCH (Text) | 34026143963663 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | 364.152 MUR (Text) | 31953144315481 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | 364.152 Murdoch (Text) | 33660137562411 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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