Elatsoe
by
Darcie Little Badger; Rovina Cai (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.1.L58 Elat 2020 PRC
ISBN: 9781646140053
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, and fantasy. Elatsoe--Ellie for short--lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals--most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered. With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past.