QIPOC

  • Jonny Appleseed

    Joshua Whitehead

    A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve.

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  • Shut Up You're Pretty

    Téa Mutonji

    In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clini

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  • Fire Song

    Adam Garnet Jones

    Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny.  How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad?

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  • Under the Udala Trees

    Chinelo Okparanta

    Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.

    Genre: QIPOC Fiction
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  • Let's Talk About Love

    Claire Kann

    Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting--working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan?

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  • nîtisânak

    Lindsay Nixon

    Lindsay Nixon’s nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care.

    A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same.

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  • Disintegrate / Dissociate

    In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis.

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  • NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From The Field

    In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt writes using the modes of accusation and interrogation.

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  • Fireweed

    Fireweed is a collection of poetry that explores the rawness, trauma, and realities of adolescence compounded with the experience of being a young, Indigenous, and two-spirit intergenerational residential school survivor.

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  • An Unkindness of Ghosts

    Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn--botanist and healer Aster Gray has little to offer folks in rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them.

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