One Book One Town: Warrior Girl Unearthed

The town of Fairfield chooses a book each year and encourages the whole town to read it and engage through dialogue and programming. The One Book One Town (OBOT) committee is run by the Fairfield Public Library (FPL) and consists of librarians and staff from FPL as well as the Pequot Library, Fairfield Museum & History Center, Fairfield Public Schools, Experience Fairfield, WSHU Public Radio, Sacred Heart University Library, the Fairfield University Downtown Store and our DiMenna-Nyselius Library.

The 2024 OBOT title is...

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Warrior Girl Unearthed is the stand-alone companion to Boulley’s 2021 debut best-selling novel Firekeeper’s Daughter. Set in the same Ojibwe community as Firekeeper’s Daughter, and featuring many of the same characters, Warrior Girl Unearthed explores themes of identity, family, and reclamation in a Native community. Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. 

Copies of the book are available to borrow and the Library has incorporated Warrior Girl Unearthed into the Winter Reading Challenge. The student-run Book Club will also be reading the book this semester. Companion titles for younger readers are We Still Belong by Christine Day and Berry Song by Michael Goade.

Author Angeline Boulley will give a talk on Tuesday March 5th at 7pm, held at the Quick Center for the Arts. Register for a free ticket on FPL’s website (link below). In addition FPL will host a presentation on March 9th, led by Education Outreach Ambassador Darlene Kascak of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, exploring pre- and post-contact history from multiple perspectives including storytelling to provide a more truthful and accurate understanding of the history of Connecticut.