Join us for our November book club meeting to discuss Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueer coming-of-age novel, Jonny Appleseed.About this Event
Join Endless Wonders Books for our November book club meeting! Our book club meets monthly. We rotate the genre/theme each month, but we always pick a book written by or about people from historically underrepresented or marginalized communities.
November pick: the Indigiqueer coming-of-age novel by Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed.
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About the book
A 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 reservation.WINNER, Lambda Literary Award
“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 novel.
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. 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. The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny’s world 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.
Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.
About the author
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation. He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks, 2017) and the 2016 winner of the Aboriginal Arts and Stories Challenge which awarded him a Governor General’s History Award. Currently he is undertaking a Ph.D. in Indigenous Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary.
Event venue
Endless Wonders Books, 414 Southeast 80th Avenue, Portland, United States
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