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provides a Navajo perspective of the peoples poignant event in history, which the novel is set in the midst of the Long Walk.
The author eloquently intertwines the retelling of oral history of the Navajo elders experiences of strength and survival during the Long Walk through Ninaanibaa and her husband Hashké Yił Naabaah.
The young couple not only struggles to protect their family, but also their tribal community, The novel truly displays the Navajo cultural perspective of family, love, strength, and belief, which is overlooked from other historical book written about the Long Walk.
sitelink romancedailynews. com/sing This was so beautiful and so emotional and I will never recover, Ten billion. Also, I can't recommend the audiobook enough, it's free on the publisher's website and it's so worth it, I can't wait to own this book and the rest of the series physically,

P. S. Hashké Yił Naabaah deserves the title of the best book man in existence, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH, Actual Rating:.stars

Her Land, Her Love is part love story, part family saga, part novelization of the Long Walk and the horrors experienced by Navajo people and other Indigenous people.
This book takes awhile to get into and has what feels like an armslength, formal writing style until you get to know the characters.
But then it's like a gut punch interrupted by moments of tenderness and love, This was difficult to read at times, but I do think it's important to be aware of this history,

We see our heroine grow up in an idyllic community, get married, fall in love with her husband, have babies, begin raising a family, and then.
. . Everything is rudely interrupted when her two daughters are abducted and she will do anything to find them again, There's a lot

of love and strength in this story, but there are also a lot of horrific things, From attempted sexual assault on the main character, repeated mentions of the same against women and girls by white soldiers, verbal and physical abuse, horrific living conditions, and much more.
It can be a lot, And maybe I should have known but I don't think I realized just how bad things were,

But as much as this does not shy away from abuse and deprivation, it is also a story filled with hope, the strength of love, community, and the value of Navajo beliefs and practices to the characters.
It's clear this was written primarily for a Navajo audience, Throughout the book the Navajo language is used, sometimes in blocks of text, directly followed by the English translation, It's cool but it does take some getting used to, And I think that's the main thing with this book, While I found much of it to be deeply affecting and I learned a lot, it's also written in a style that makes you always aware that the author is telling you the story, and has a tendency toward lengthy descriptions and loosely related side bars that don't move the story forward, but rather feel like an instructional text for Navajo youth.
And none of that is necessarily bad, especially given who this was written for, but it does mean that other audiences will need to work a little harder with this one.
I will say, I thought the relationship between the main characters was BEAUTIFUL and there were moments that nearly brought me to tears.
Talk about commitment to each other in a marriage no matter what life throws at you,

Trigger amp Content Warnings

Rape
Sexual assault Her Land, Her Love is a fictionalized telling of the Navajo Long Walk, told from the perspective of one Navajo couple, their family, and their people.
It's a long book that was sometimes on the slow side for me, but other times fast, I would be reading along wondering when I'd get to the end of a chapter, but by the time I got there I would be hooked and just keep right on reading into the next chapter.
I found it fascinating to see what life was like for these characters their skill at living off of the land, and also the intensity of the horrors they endured when their lives were so disrupted by the U.
S. army.

Though somewhat long, I will note that there is a good amount of text that is in the/a Navajo language and then translated to English, and I was able to skip over quite a bit and just read the English.
I may have learned a few new words, though, with barely any effort!

I read this book for theRead Harder Challenge the task to read an historical romance by an author of color.
I would like to read more in the series, While this book wasn't bad, it was just a lot for me to handle emotionally/mentally,
There are multiple moments of rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, abuse, violence, death, and I would've really appreciated a trigger warning or something.


If you go into this, just be aware of the historical events surrounding the long walk, because this was a lot for me to handle.

While this was deeply emotional, I really loved the relationship between the mother and father, their dedication to each other and them wanting to reunite their family.
The first novel, in a sweeping epic of one determined Navajo family's efforts to persevere during the Long Walk, blends history, romance, conflict, culture, and family in a finely crafted story that is a true work of passion.
The first authentic Navajo love story, with Navajo values of love, relationships, and community,

The story begins in Black Mesa, Arizona inat the start of the Navajo Long Walk, The woman at the heart of the story is Ninaanibaa' The Woman Warrior who Came Home Once Again and her husband, Hashke Yil Naabaah The Warrior Who Fights with Anger.
When two of their daughters are kidnapped, they set out on a journey in search of their missing children, .