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    This Accident of Being Lost

    Published by House of Anansi Press Inc Audio

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    About this audiobook

    This Accident of Being Lost 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 Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.

    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, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press Inc Audio
    Release dateJun 22, 2018
    ISBN9781487004484

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    • 5/5
      Vet eye opening approach to the Native story in Canada. I think the Native perspective is not talked about enough at all when it comes Western countries.
    • 5/5
      Beautiful prose and poetry that covers much ground - pain, bone-deep sorrow, satire, and even humor. Love that it was read by the author - Simpson has a gorgeous poet’s voice and cadence that makes listening to this in audio version really special. Only wish there were better pauses between the stories. They almost blended together and made it difficult to discern where one story / poem ended and another began. Of course I could have been listening to it too fast so I had a harder time hearing the transitions, but I still think the editing could have made those distinctions better.