Girl Gone Missing
Marcie R Rendon
(Author)Description
Nominee, Mystery Writer's of America-- THE G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
In The Margins Recommended Fiction
Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the 19-year-old Ojibwe woman is Cash. She lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. She has one friend, the sheriff Wheaton. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was three. Since then, Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms, driving truck. Wheaton wants her to take hold of her life, signs her up for college. She gets an education there at Moorhead State all right: sees that people talk a lot but mostly about nothing, not like the men in the fields she's known all her life who hold the rich topsoil in their hands, talk fertilizer and weather and prices on the Grain Exchange. In between classes and hauling beets, drinking beer and shooting pool, a man who claims he's her brother shows up, and she begins to dream the Cities and blonde Scandinavian girls calling for help.
Marcie Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. In 2020, she became the first Native American woman to receive the McKnight Distinguished Artist award. Her novel, Girl Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, is the second in the Cash Blackbear series. The first, Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) won the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award, 2018. It was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 in the Contemporary Novel category. Two nonfiction children's books are Pow Wow Summer (MN Historical Press) and Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (CarolRhoda). Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN, 2018. With four published plays she is the creative mind of Raving Native Theater. She curates community created performance such as Art Is...CreativeNativeResilience which features three Anishinabe performance artists on TPT Public Television, June 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft's 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.
Rendon was featured in Oprah Magazine's 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now: Rendon's Cash Blackbear series are gripping vehicles that tell broader stories about the historical persecution of American Indians.
Product Details
| Publisher | Cinco Puntos Press |
| Publish Date | June 18, 2019 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781947627116 |
| Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Marcie Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. In 2020, she became the first Native American woman to receive the McKnight Distinguished Artist award. Her novel, Girl Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, is the second in the Cash Blackbear series. The first, Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) won the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award, 2018. It was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 in the Contemporary Novel category. Two nonfiction children's books are Pow Wow Summer (MN Historical Press) and Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (CarolRhoda). Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN, 2018. With four published plays she is the creative mind of Raving Native Theater. She curates community created performance such as Art Is...CreativeNativeResilience which features three Anishinabe performance artists on TPT Public Television, June 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft's 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work with women incarcerated in county jails.
Rendon was featured in Oprah Magazine's 31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now: Rendon's Cash Blackbear series are gripping vehicles that tell broader stories about the historical persecution of American Indians.
Reviews
Praise for Murder on Red River by Marcie Rendon
- Feisty, sensitive, and smart.--Publishers Weekly
- This accomplished author has clearly undertaken more than a murder story ... she finds new depth and an ample storytelling platform for her informed views on the historic persecution of Indians.--Minneapolis Star Tribune
- [Marcie] Rendon delves deep into the history of Native American communities and the danger of forcing assimilation on a community outside the mainstream of American cultural norms.--Twin Cities Pioneer Press
- Rendon...masterfully weaves two stories in a seamless, vivid narrative.--Los Angeles Review of Books
Rendon's refreshing sequel to 2017's Murder on the Red River...When [Cash] hears about a missing coed, she contacts [Sheriff] Wheaton. Since they previously worked together successfully on a murder, Wheaton trusts Cash's sharp instincts and asks for her help in solving the case...Rendon, herself a member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation, highlights the plight of Native Americans who were forcibly adopted by whites and Cash's discomfort in a land that is and is not hers. Readers will look forward to Cash's next outing.--Publishers Weekly
In her second outing, Cash Blackbear goes off to college and finds herself embroiled in the mystery of a missing classmate.'I'm not used to folks treating me like I'm stupid, ' says Cash. But Moorhead State is another world, one slow to disclose the secrets of its initiated.--Kirkus Reviews
Rendon is a natural storyteller and a consummate writer, and we're indebted to Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso for bringing the unforgettable Cash Blackbear to life. There isn't a protagonist in recent fiction with the bearing of Rendon's creation, and we're the better for knowing her.--Jeffrey Mannix, The Durango Telegraph
I won't recount the terror, the drama, and the bravery of what follows. You can read the book yourself.The ending, I'll just say, is deeply satisfying. Rendon has been working for years in the prisons with women who are incarcerated for prostitution, soliciting, and other offenses. Teaching them to tell their stories and access their inner writing voice. She's able to convey the savagery of the system, what it does to women and their families, how deeply it is connected to poverty, and how it reaches into white rural and suburban areas as well as communities of color. --Ann Markusen, Grand Rapids Herald-Review
Darn that Marcie Rendon but she did it again. She wrote another book featuring Renee "Cash" Blackbear which invariably led to non-stop, compulsive reading and thoughts about the 19-year-old protagonist...This is a good book. If you read it, block out uninterrupted time. It's hard to put down.--Deborah Locke, The Circle News: Native American News and Arts
The vivid writing and keen eye keep the pages turning and readers hoping for another book in this series.--Wendy J. Fox, Buzzfeed
I was so glad to have more Cash to read...please keep writing about Cash. I love her brains, her broken heart, and her intuition. --Kirstin Cronn-Mills, author of The Sky Always Hears Me
Against the landscape of a 1970s college town, the disappearance of a classmate draws Cash into a web of dreams, deceit and danger. Heart-stopping, heartrending and heartening, often all at the same time. -- Linda LeGarde Grover, author of The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Cash Blackbear is a complex, courageous character, full of her own integrity. --Linda Rodriguez, author of the Skeet Bannion Mysteries
Murder on the Red River and Girl Gone Missing are excellent novels, so compulsively readable that they are difficult to put down...presenting compelling and engaging narratives that also touch on issues that face Indigenous peoples and communities. --Transmotion, Mary Stoecklein
Earn by promoting books
