After her half-sister is deployed to Iraq, Tess agrees to care for her sister's horse Blue and take him with her when she goes to her grandmother's sheep camp for the summer, but an unexpected tragedy leads her to question her identity.
Half-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and withmissing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes.
Struggling with the cultural challenges of her half-white, half-Navajo heritage, 13-year-old Tess cares for a semi-wild stallion when her older sister enlists to fight in the Iraq war weeks after a member of their community becomes the first Native American woman in modern U.S. history to die in combat.
A tender and gripping novel about family, identity, and loss.
Fourteen-year-old Tess is having a hard enough time understanding what it means to be part white and part Navajo, but now she's coping with her sister Gaby's announcement that she's going to enlist and fight in the Iraq war. Gaby's decision comes just weeks after the news that Lori Piestewa, a member of their community, is the first Native American woman in US history to die in combat, adding to Tess's stress and emotions. While Gaby is away, Tess reluctantly cares for her sister's semi-wild stallion, Blue, who will teach Tess how to deal with tragic loss and guide her own journey of self-discovery.
Lori Piestewa was a real-life soldier who was killed in Iraq and was a member of the Hopi tribe. Back matter includes further information about Piestewa as well as a note by author Nancy Bo Flood detailing her experiences living on the Navajo reservation. A pronunciation guide to all Navajo vocabulary used within the text is also included.
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