2nd Floor Conference Room
\nThis mon th we will be reading Where They Last Saw Her < /em>by Marcie R. Rendon. \;
\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER &b ull\; \;A \;WASHINGTON POST \;AND \;BOOK RIOT \;BEST B OOK OF THE YEAR
\nAll they heard was her scream.\n
Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to women who look like her. Just a girl when Jimmy Sky jumped off the railway bridge and she ran for help\, Quill reali zes now that she&rsquo\;s never stopped running. As she trains for the Bos ton Marathon early one morning in the woods\, she hears a scream. When she returns to search the area\, all she finds are tire tracks and a single b eaded earring.
\nThings are different now for Quill than when she wa s a lonely girl. Her friends Punk and Gaylyn are two women who don&rsquo\; t know what it means to quit\; her loving husband\, Crow\, and their two b eautiful children challenge her to be better every day. So when she hears a second woman has been stolen\, she is determined to do something about i t&mdash\;starting with investigating the group of men working the pipeline construction just north of their homes.
\nAs Quill closes in on the truth about the missing women\, someone else disappears. In her quest to find justice for all of the women of the reservation\, she is confronted w ith the hard truths of their home and the people who purport to serve them . When will she stop losing neighbors\, friends\, family? As Quill puts ev erything on the line to make a difference\, the novel asks searing questio ns about bystander culture\, the reverberations of even one act of crime\, and the long-lasting trauma of being considered invisible.
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