Crazy Horse's Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth

Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend

Sixteen-year-old Margaritte wants out. Out of her small town, where girls get pregnant young and end up stuck, like her mom. Out of a world where drugs are often the only relief. Out of a family where her Native American mother won’t leave her white, alcoholic, abusive father, no matter how much Margaritte pleads. Margaritte hopes if she and her cousin Jake sell enough weed, they can at least escape to Denver one day. That’s when Mike comes to town. Like Margaritte, he loves to read, he’s funny, and he’s Indian–though unlike Margaritte, he’s adopted out, and doesn’t really understand who he is. That’s when Margaritte gets pregnant. Now what’s she going to do? Get trapped like mom? And is Mike everything that he seems?

A coming-of-age novel about the female, urban Indian experience, Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend is not only a gritty, unexpectedly funny, page-turning novel about a girl who just wants a little bit more–it’s an instant classic.