Jonny's life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages-and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.
The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the “rez”-and his former life-to attend the funeral of his stepfather. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. “You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeĪ tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. WINNER, Lambda Literary Award Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Canada Reads 2021įinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Amazon Canada First Novel Award Indigenous Voices Award Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Firecracker Award for Fiction
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