I cannot recommend this book enough. It has made it into the @bookculture top ten two weeks in a row! I devoured this book once, and then again, and then I ripped all my favorites out to make my apartment a bit more beautiful.

"She was a girl; she had nothing to be ashamed of, and they had better learn that first thing." Happy International Women's Day!

"This idea of the gift-giving Indian helping to establish & enrich the development of the US is an insidious smoke screen meant to obscure the fact that the very existence of the country is the result of the looting of an entire continent."

I've been reading all of the Tamora Pierce books that I didn't have the chance to read when I was younger and am so excited to finally start the Protector of the Small series! ⚔🛡⚔