β Scribed by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for βin the bush,β and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodieβs 1852 memoir "Roughing it in the bush". Set in the same place as Moodieβs colonial memoir, this genre-fluid novel is offered as a cure for Moodieβs racist treatment of Mississauga Nishnaabeg in her writing. The giant Sabe meditates on the gifts and challenges of their recent sobriety. Migrating geese make a case for coordinated formation as a way to get out of βoneβs own cycling head.β Raccoons turn Bougie Kweβs Zen-garden pond into their personal urban spa. This is a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits who are all busy with the daily labours of healing - healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. These stories gather up tiny pieces, one at a time, as they slowly circle through the perspectives of different characters, in a breathtaking act of world-building that rewards patience and deep listening. This is the real world, the one where meaning accumulates through close observation and relationship. Enter and be changed. Bestseller. 2020.
Listening -- Fiction
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