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Jonny Appleseed / Joshua Whitehead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018Description: 224 pages pbkContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781551527253 (softcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Jonny Appleseed.DDC classification:
  • FIC WHI 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Summary: ""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. 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 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). 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."-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: Indigenous Authors
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction pbk Shelburne Public Library Shelves Fiction FIC WHI Available 9500342672729
Total holds: 0

Canada Reads 2021 selection.
Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.
Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards finalist.

""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. 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 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). 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Issued also in electronic format.

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