From the dust jacket- 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 few people were actively looking for him.
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 oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma.
Review- This is less of a true crime book from a kind of memoir. Murdoch is a reporter and she met Lissa Yellow Bird when she was reporting on fracking on the reservations and how it was affecting the local communities. Lissa was investigating the disappearance of a young oil rig worker. Murdoch got interested in Lissa and here is our book. I was expecting more of a true crime story than I got but it was this interesting. Lissa Yellow Bird has lived a very colorful life, from a colorful family, and she is an engaging person to see the story from. Murdoch does her best to give the reader the truth without too much of her personal opinions coloring the narrative. But I think that this book would have been better if it had committed to either being a true crime or a memoir of Lissa, instead of straddling the line between the two.
I give this book a Three out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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