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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
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Sierra Crane Murdoch constructs a deep and affecting work of research in her depiction of Lissa Yellow Bird. In turn, Lissa Yellow Bird's search for both murder victim and killer has us reading with fascination. Lissa Yellow Bird is complex and dynamic. Her dedication to finding a missing oil worker is matched perfectly to her dedication to her family, her reservation and her own salvation. A truly rewarding read.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.
“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days
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“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days
In development as a Paramount+ original series
WINNER OF THE ...
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