Jonny Appleseed

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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. Download Jonny Appleseed author Joshua Whitehead – kino-fada.fr What a beautiful, sad, funny book It s the most poignant reminder I ve had in a while about how powerful and effecting a first person narrative can be Jonny, the two spirit main character, carries the book with his raw, hilarious, and insightful voice The story meanders through his memories, mostly of his kokum, mom, and his great first love Tias, while in the present Jonny prepares to go back to the rez for his mom s boyfriend s funeral.Favourite quotes Humility is just a humiliation you lo What a beautiful, sad, funny book It s the most poignant reminder I ve had in a w...There are so many things in this novel that make it beautifully queer Its 2 spirit protagonist its nonlinear timeline that intentionally meanders through past stories of family and tradition, trauma and survival its descriptions of eroticism and the discovery and exploration of sexuality I could go on.Joshua Whitehead is a master of words There were at least a dozen killer sentences that I felt compelled to highlight as I was reading, particularly because I felt they captured the experie There are so many things in this novel that make it beautifully queer Its 2 spirit pr...This read like a shitty first draft, alas There were enough tender, raw sentences scattered throughout the first several chapters to keep me going, mesmerized by a wee bit of evidence of an exciting new voice But after that, un...Like most queer lit, this book is SAD but also GOOD I really liked the non linear way it was told and how you really got to know the characters through the vignettes of Jonny s memory The best part of this book is any scene with Jonny and...At times I wanted to throw this book across the room For good reason Times when the world was cruel and Joshua Whitehead lays just the right train of thought to make you feel it in your gut Or times when the throbbing horniness of it makes me feel like the last thing I wanna be holding in my hands at that moment is a book Whitehead has a gift for turning pain into pleasure, twisting the bullied moments our glitterprincess survives an...Stop everything you are doing and read this book It s everything I love about Indigenous storytelling About a young Oji Cree two spirit Indigequeer NDN in the week leading up to his stepfather s funeral, this book is a gift I appreciate the contemporary nature of this book, both in it s sense of now the technology, the terminology, what s current in the world of pop culture , but also in it s sense of place it s the world exactly now, it s Winnipeg and Peguis exactly now The other thing a Stop everything you are doing and read this book It s everything I love about Indigenous storytelling About a young Oji Cree two spirit Indigequeer NDN in the week leading up to his stepfather s funeral, this book is a gift I appreciate the contemporary nature of this book, both in it s sense of now the technology, the terminology, what s current in the world of pop culture , but also in it s sense of place it s the world exactly now, it s Winnipeg and Peguis exactly now The other thing about this book is that characters are so deeply human Shit...Jonny Appleseed is written by Joshua Whitehouse and is on the long list for the Giller Prize at this time The short list will be announced tomorrow, September 30th, 2018 I have only read three of the long listed books, but I am rooting for Whitehouse This book is important I just finished reading it and almost started reading it again right away I really like books that are written in this sort of free verse writtentimeline I love feeling the emotion of characters and it seeming like I was Jonny Appleseed is written by Joshua Whitehouse and is on the long list for the Giller Prize at this time The short list will be announced tomorrow, September 30th, 2018 I have only read three of the long listed books, but I am rooting for Whitehouse This book is important I just finished reading it and almost started reading it again right away I really like books that are written in this sort of free verse writtentimeline I love feeling the emotion of characters and it seeming like I was getting inside the inner chambers of Jonny, our Two spirit Indigiqueer and ND glitter princess narrator s head Jonny s stepfather has died and he must get back to the rez to be with is mother and is trying to earn enough money in the next seven days to get there What follows are seven days of heartbreaki...Adored it Full video review to comeWho the hell gonna love me now, Kokum Whose gonna suck the pain from my skin, teach me to love it into humility Who, Kokum, who This is a powerful book about a Two Spirit Indiqueer individual finding his way in a modern w...i think i haven t read anything that made queer sex this everydaysacred in a long time i need to reread this one a few times i m not mad about it.

Jonny Appleseed
  • English
  • 16 May 2017
  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • 1551527251
  • Joshua Whitehead
  • Jonny Appleseed