This is the story of a biracial 18-year old named Daunis, daughter of an Anishinaabe father and white mother and not quite fully a part of either community. Although not a registered tribe member, Daunis associates closely with her relatives on that side and participates in and respects the Ojibwe customs and elders. As such, she's a narrator who's able to see both sides as she tries to find her own path between them. Through her eyes the reader sees multiple tragedies striking the tribe, including drug addictions, murders, and sexual assault. With her knowledge of tribal medicine, her aspiration to become a doctor and a scientist in university, and her connections both inside and outside the tribe, Daunis is ideally placed to investigate how meth is being distributed into her communities and to try and stop the damage it's doing.

I really liked the way this book didn't shy away from the multiple problems and tragedies that affect real tribal communities like Daunis's, but also does not paint Daunis and her tribal peers as either "wise native" nor "poor victim". Both the FBI and the tribal elders/members are trying to solve the drug problem, with different approaches and different attitudes, and Daunis has to find her way between the two.