Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley 
Book
Contemporary
Historical
Mystery
Young Adult
Book
Contemporary
Historical
Mystery
Young Adult
Updated: 19 February 2022
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned in passing (in discussion and/or implied)
Sexual harassment (e.g. verbal or non-consensual touching/grabbing)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sexual abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape strongly implied/details surrounding a rape discussed in detail (i.e. the events before/after)
Detailed/vivid description of rape

Description

The protagonist is raped by a teammate's parent. He gets her alone by claiming to have sensitive information on her, then he overpowers her in a hotel room. The protagonist dissociates, so there is no description of what happened. However, there is a lot of description of what he said to her, her feelings after the fact, and rape apologism expressed by people she knows (e.g. 'what were you thinking would happen when you were alone with him?). ' The protagonist overhears boys talking about her body in a sexual manner when they do not think she is around. Her brother defends her. There is discussion of a tradition called a "blanket party" in which groups of women apprehend someone who has "done something to a girl," wrap him in a blanket, take him to the woods, and beat him up. Worthy of note: for much of the book, the protagonist, who is 18, becomes romantically involved with an undercover FBI agent who is 22. Because the FBI agent seems young, towards the beginning of the book, he is pretending to be a high school student, and the protagonist doesn't know his true age or role at first. We later find out from the FBI agent's colleague that the FBI agent had the idea of pretending to date the protagonist in order to get close to her.

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