This Accident of Being Lost

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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

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Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781487001285

<p><strong>A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.</strong></p><p><i>This Accident of Being Lost</i> is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection <i>Islands of Decolonial Love</i>.</p><p>A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, <i>This Accident of Being Lost</i> burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.</p>