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Jonny Appleseed

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

WINNER, Lambda Literary Laurels; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Laurels; Ethnic Voices Accolade; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

A Earth and Mail Best Book of the Twelvemonth

A tour-de-force debut novel about a 2-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns abode to his reserve.

"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 bright and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead.

Off the reserve and trying to notice ways to live and love in the large urban center, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to brand a living. Self-ordained every bit an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has i week before he must return to the "rez"--and his onetime life--to nourish 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 life is a serial of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to render home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.

Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of First Nations life, total of grit, glitter, and dreams.

• Long-listed, Scotiank Giller Prize 2018
• Short-listed, Governor Full general'southward Literary Accolade 2018
• Short-listed, Amazon Canada Kickoff Novel Honour 2019
• Brusk-listed, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Laurels 2019
• Short-listed, Ethnic Voices Accolade 2019
• Winner, Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction (Alberta Literary Awards) 2019
• Winner, Lambda Literary Award 2019
• Curt-listed, Firecracker Honour for Fiction 2019
• Winner, Canada Reads 2021

Jonny Appleseed is a miraculous achievement of a debut novel. -Canadian Art

Jonny Appleseed breaks rocks and crafts them into good medicine for folks like Jonny, who might exist looking to see themselves reflected somewhere, and for whom this visibility might even hateful survival. Equally Whitehead weaves Jonny's resonant experiences and complex identity into a compelling journey, nosotros might also consider why stories such as his are and then rare when Jonny is so willing to bring us forth for the ride. -Winnipeg Free Press

Joshua Whitehead redefines what queer Indigenous writing can exist in his powerful debut novel. Jonny Appleseed transcends genres of writing to alloy the sacred and the sexual into a vital expression of Ethnic want and honey. Reading it is a coming dwelling house to bodies, stories, and experiences of queer Ethnic life that has never been so richly and honestly shown before. This volume is an honour song to every queer NDN trunk who has ever lived and it will transform the universe with its dazzler and magic. -Gwen Benaway, author of Passage

This is literary perfection. It'southward as well the most cute quill and dewdrop work that I've felt since discovering Chrystos and Gregory Scofield. I'k in awe, Jonny. I'm grateful, Joshua. I'm astounded at everything you've gathered hither for us to laurels and blush about and witness. Y'all are my new hero. Don't yous e'er stop writing and sharing. Mahsi cho for your beauty. -Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed

With simply vii days until he returns home for his stepfather'south funeral, Appleseed spends a pyretic week attempting to reconcile the competing factions of his life: sex, friends, work, sex, family, identity, sexual practice. Throughout, memories of his kokum (grandmother) intrude upon the chaos, and these unexpected moments of remembrance prove most striking. A radically original new phonation. -Booklist

If we're lucky, we'll find ane or two books in a lifetime that alter the linguistic communication of story, that manage to illuminate new curves in the flat vessels of old letters and words. This is one of those books. Jonny Appleseed gifts us with clarity in the shape of precipitous, and medicine in the guise of soft -- and a sexy, powerful, broken, beautiful hero who has plenty capacity in the dent of a clavicle to concur all the tears of his family. This volume gives united states of america back the country of adjourn and field, trailer and ledge, and the community -- in all its rusted and complicated glory. Most importantly, this volume gifts usa with the opportunity to hear the innovative and the ancient in the prose of a new literary goddess, Joshua Whitehead. -Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves

Jonny Appleseed weaponizes story to bring the rez (and urban rez) to life, shrouding its characters in luminous layers and then they're neither expert nor bad but immersed in worlds and words. Unflinching and intimate, Joshua Whitehead takes his readers on a journey to the heart of an NDN glitter princess with generous, swooning prose. Unforgettable. -Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster

Every and then oftentimes, a book comes along that feels like a milestone, with revolution nestled below every sentence, every give-and-take. Oji-Cree/nehiyaw ii-spirit/Indigiqueer writer Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed is one of those books . .. With its fluid structure and timelines, Jonny Appleseed creates a dream-like reading experience -- and with a narrator as wise, funny and loveable every bit Jonny, it's the sort of dream you don't desire to wake upward from. -The Globe and Mail

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