Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

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An impressive debut that serves as an eye-opening view of both the oil economy and Native American affairs. It’s Yellow Bird’s incremental fight that makes the bookaddictive, full of twists and turns and surprising choices. My only complaint was that the poetic framework of the book was sometimes exposed, as in the multiple, rapid fire use of the word "and" to try to push the narrative down into a stream of consciousness channel.Immigration, trade, inequality, and taxation problems present themselves daily, and they seem to be intractable. Within this new landscape, Lissa finds a new purpose when she hears that a white oil worker, KC Clarke, has gone missing, and she makes it her quest to find him.

I also don’t think the structure – shifting from Iraq action to US aftermath and back - served the novel especially well.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.

On the day I finished this book and decided it was one of the most overrated things I've read in ages, it won the Guardian's first book award for 2012. The road to becoming a freelance investigator was long and circuitous: Yellow Bird had worked as a prison guard, stripper, and bartender before doing time for possessing narcotics “with intent to deliver. Private Bartle, the protagonist, speaking of trying to cope with everyday existence back home: "You want to fall, that's all. Through carefully structured lessons we look to build confidence and motivation and, as such, enlighten children to the joy of learning – a valuable lifelong skill! In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.Data can be adduced, for example, to answer the question of whether immigration tends to suppress wages. The main protagonist reflections are heart felt and thought provoking and you can’t avoid thinking that the authors actual real experiences and feelings have some play in the content that is categorised as fiction.