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92/100Author:
Alicia Elliott
Publisher:
Melville House
Date:
August 4, 2020
A national bestseller in Canada, Alicia Elliott explores her life spent between Indigenous and white communities and the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas that she and so many Native people have experienced.
What The Reviewers Say
Her debut essay collection navigates the deeply personal and that which all settlers in Canada and the U.S. should already know—their implication with racism—with depth, wit and never-ending heart. This is not an easy collection to read.
... she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community.
Elliott's essays...[are] elegantly written, constructed with a fine attention to style while remaining rooted in a profoundly honest, unalloyed anger.
... riveting and haunting.
