Girl Gone Missing, Marcie R. Rendon
Girl Gone Missing, Marcie R. Rendon
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Girl Gone Missing

Author: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrator: Siiri Scott

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2020


Synopsis

Her name is Renee Blackbear, but what most people call the nineteen-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 thirteen 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.

About Marcie R. Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. Her novel Girl Gone Missing is the second in the Cash Blackbear series. The first, Murder on the Red River won the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award in 2018. It was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 in the Contemporary Novel category. Her two nonfiction children’s books are Pow Wow Summer and Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together. 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.

About Siiri Scott

Siiri Scott is the head of acting and directing at the University of Notre Dame. She received her MFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and now teaches advanced acting, voice, dialects, and movement. An actor/director/educator, Siiri is an artistic associate with the Irish Theatre of Chicago and a Theatre Nohgaku company member. Based in Chicago, Siiri narrates audiobooks and voices commercials, industrials, and museum installations.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on June 29, 2022

Sharon aimed at the seven ball. “Did you hear about that chick who disappeared from Dahl Hall? Kids are saying maybe she got pregnant and went home. Then someone said she hitchhiked down to the Cities, but she hasn’t come back. Her parents were at the Dean’s office this morning.” I subscribe to R......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on March 13, 2025

I sped through this book much like the first, I'm anticipating I'll finish the next two by the end of the week, and then I won't know what to do with myself until more books come out. I really appreciate the focus the author put on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, there aren't nearly enough boo......more

Goodreads review by Electra on January 10, 2021

It was so nice to be back alongside Cash again ! I did miss her. My favorite female character. Back in Minnesota in the Valley. She is one of a kind. Ravie de retrouver Cash dans de nouvelles aventures. Si Fargo vous est familier, alors vous y êtes. La vallée, la récolte de betterave, les années 70,......more

Goodreads review by Josie on July 24, 2019

Having lived in the Red River Valley for six years, every detail of this book felt as if I had travelled back, as if I was riding along with Cash in her Ranchero to the small towns in the valley. There are several twists and turns that make you think, and the side characters were very well written.......more

Goodreads review by Holly on July 30, 2019

I thought this was an exciting read. I hadn’t read the first book featuring Cash, and I’d recommend that you do that, and I will now go do that! The main character, Cash, seemed very realistic and the Fargo Moorhead and Ada scenes were exactly right. I thought the ending seemed rushed compared to th......more


Quotes

“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’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