![]() ![]() Joshua Whitehead’s 2018 novel Jonny Appleseed is a Two-Spirit coming-of-age story concerned with the intersections of identities and the complex positions these identities occupy in contemporary space and discourse. It suggests the possibility of radically revising the struggle for resurgence by centering Two-Spiritedness and understanding Two-Spirit desires and identities as inherently anti-colonial. ![]() This article also aims to show how these links expose the underlying structural heteronormativity and heteropatriarchy in settler colonialism and Indigenous resurgence discourses. This article connects Two-Spirit theory with Native feminist theories (and their analyses of heteropatriarchy) and Qwo-Li Driskill’s concepts of “colonized sexuality” and a “Sovereign Erotic.” By close reading the novel and focusing on the themes of performance, erasure, shame, ceremony, and the body, this article aims to show the ways Indigeneity and queerness are interconnected and constantly re-negotiated. ![]() Abstract: This article explores how Joshua Whitehead’s novel Jonny Appleseed discusses the complexities of being Two-Spirit on the reserve and in the city in Canada, exposes the double oppression and erasure of Two-Spiritedness, and demonstrates the possibility-and necessity-of queering the struggle for Indigenous resurgence. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreīook Review-The FlamethrowersRachel KushnerA young woman, 23 years old, with an appetite for adventure and life. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, Reno is a fiercely memorable observer, superbly realized by Rachel Kushner. Reno is submitted to a sentimental education of sorts-by dreamers, poseurs, and raconteurs in New York and by radicals in Italy, where she goes with her lover to meet his estranged and formidable family. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity-artists colonize a deserted and industrial SoHo, stage actions in the East Village, blur the line between life and art. Reno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. “Superb…Scintillatingly alive…A pure explosion of now.”- The New Yorker NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best Book of 2013 by: The Wall Street Journal Vogue O, The Oprah Magazine Los Angeles Times The San Francisco Chronicle The New Yorker Time Flavorwire Salon Slate The Daily Beast ![]() ![]() ![]() And when tragedy strikes, she learns that she can depend on other people to help her in times of need. Through inexperienced and unprepared, she feels drawn to the Appalachian Trail and sets out along on the long-distance footpath that stretches 2, 175 miles from Georgia to Maine. The trail is full of unexpected kindness, generosity, and humor. After graduating from college, Jennifer isnt sure what she wants to do with her life. With every step she takes, Jennifer transitions from an over-confident college graduate to a student of the trail, braving situations she never imagined before her thru-hike. Becoming Odyssa is a PG book about a middle class women who graduates college and is not sure what to do. ![]() She quickly discovers that thru-hiking is harder than she had imagined: coping with blisters and aching shoulders from the thirty-pound pack she carries sleeping on the hard wooden floors of trail shelters hiking through endless torrents of rain and even a blizzard. After graduating from college, Jennifer isnt sure what she wants to do with her life. The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life. ![]() ![]() Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2,175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. ![]() ![]() Jasper ended the relationship by fax while on a business trip to San Francisco: "Please don't call me. ![]() I imagined our children, a boy and a girl each with his long limbs and caffeine-free groundedness and maybe my hair and aesthetic. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īmerica Throne's relationship with her boyfriend Jasper was heading for a happy ending: I thought, my God, soon we will probably be married. Hailed as "brilliant" ( Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice. In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. ![]() From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's "aha" moment culminates with, "While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better." But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men.Īmerica's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. ![]() Her career is sprouting, and she is in love - with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. America Throne is living the good life in L.A. ![]() ![]() To find Krissy and to help her tribe survive, she must dodge radiation that is strong enough to overpower even her redaction and lead them south away from the ice approaching rapidly from the north. In the second section Magda le Ter returns to the mainland of Europe after the war to find the tribe of her daughter Krissy. ![]() We learn for the first time how the innocent and well-meaning choices by two women changed the future of the galaxy. It ends with the part their love affair played in starting the war and the impact of the dogma of the Chan women on the inevitability of the war. However, it is really the story of how the two children fell into an enduring love. Lishl, also a child, is a daughter of the Chan negotiator. Darg, a son of the Progeny negotiator, is allowed on the station because he is a child. ![]() It deals with their early life together on a mediation station where the Progeny from Symmetry and the Chan controlled by man-hating priests have been trying for decades to iron out a peace treaty. The first section is the story of Darg and Lishl. ![]() ![]() ![]() McMillan also published the best seller A Day Late and a Dollar Short in 2002 and The Interruption of Everything in 2005. Disappearing Acts (2012) was subsequently produced as a direct-to-cable feature, starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan. In 1995, Forest Whitaker turned it into a film starring Whitney Houston.Īnother of McMillan's novels, her 1998 novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was also made into a movie. ![]() She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale, which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for many months. Her first book, Mama, was published in 1987. Her work is characterized by relatable female protagonists. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 at University of California, Berkeley. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. ![]() Awards- Essence Award for Excellence in Literature.Education-B.A., University of California, Berkeley. ![]() ![]() When his classmates clamor to buy the K-pop branded beauty products his mom gave him to “make new friends,” he sees an opportunity-one that may be the key to help him pay for the music school tuition he knows his parents won’t cover… With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris.Įnter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Jackson lifted her arms, the wings of her astronaut suit rising with her. “The air was charged between us, silent static like the moment when the conductor raises his baton, right before the music begins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jacqueline Carey, New York Times-bestselling author of the acclaimed Kushiels Legacy novels. For if she’s ever tempted to invoke her demonic birthright, it could accidentally unleash nothing less than Armageddon. Available in: Audiobook (Digital).Jacqueline Carey is the New York Times best-selling author of the award-winning Kushiels Legacy series. Dark Currents Agent of Hel 1 by Jacqueline Carey available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. ![]() Teamed up with her childhood crush, Officer Cody Fairfax, a sexy werewolf on the down-low, Daisy must solve the crime-and keep a tight rein on the darker side of her nature. But when a young man from a nearby college drowns-and signs point to eldritch involvement-the town’s booming paranormal tourism trade is at stake. And as Hel’s enforcer and the designated liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department, it’s up to her to ensure relations between the mundane and eldritch communities run smoothly. To Daisy Johanssen, fathered by an incubus and raised by a single mother, it’s home. THE FIRST AGENT OF HEL NOVEL! “Jacqueline Carey proves her versatility with this compelling and delightful piece of urban fantasy.”-#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Charlaine Harris The Midwestern resort town of Pemkowet boasts a diverse population: eccentric locals, wealthy summer people, and tourists by the busload-not to mention fairies, sprites, vampires, naiads, ogres, and a whole host of eldritch folk, presided over by Hel, a reclusive Norse goddess. Available in: Audiobook (Digital).Jacqueline Carey is the New York Times best-selling author of the award-winning Kushiel's Legacy series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane isn’t living through a world where the South is occupied, and resisting that occupation. In Dread Nation as in our world, the South was shattered, and slavery outlawed, at least in theory but Dread Nation diverges by making some key moments, like Sherman’s March to the Sea, a battle against zombies rather than Confederate soldiers. The dead in Dread Nation often return, and their bites infect others. In her world, the war’s resolution was interrupted by zombies rising after the battle of Gettysburg. ![]() The central character of Ireland’s novel, Jane McKeen, is a black woman living outside Baltimore in the years after the Civil War. We are fortunate not only that the machinery of publishing selected this zombie novel by and about a black woman for publication, but also for critics from this century and the last who can make clear why Dread Nation is such an effective response to the overwhelming Whiteness of speculative fiction. Dread Nation, a YA novel from Justina Ireland that is a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and won the Locus Award for best YA novel of 2018, demonstrates why noticing, rather than ignoring, race is essential to truth-telling in fantasy. ![]() To notice is to recognize an already discredited difference” (p. In The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas quotes Toni Morrisson’s essay Playing in the Dark: “ignoring race is understood to be a graceful, even generous liberal gesture. ![]() ![]() The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers." Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories." during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.īooks previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. ![]() ![]() ![]() She creates beautiful subtleties with the images and. Shipstead’s writing is well-honed and fluid throughout. The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, established in 1976, is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English." Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. Similar in tone and feel to novels like Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book and Erika Swyler’s The Book of Speculation, Great Circle is sweeping in scope and does well in capturing and conveying a strong feeling of time and place. Annual American literary award for nonfiction books ![]() |