Book Club – Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery)

Join us for a virtual or in-person discussion of Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery) by Marie Rendon. Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.

Minnesota, 1970s: It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer – until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash discovers their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed. The girl, a possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak.

Broken Fields is a compelling, atmospheric read woven with details of American Indian life in northern Minnesota, abusive farm labor practices and women’s liberation.

In-person Book club will meet for lunch in The Learning Center Tuesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m.

Questions? Contact the Tribal Librarian at karen.bos@glt-nsn.gov.