Sasha Lapointe
Autor de Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
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Obras de Sasha Lapointe
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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers (2019) — Contribuidor — 62 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Lapointe, Sasha taqʷšəblu
- Género
- female
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Non-fiction (1)
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- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 183
- Popularidad
- #118,259
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 7
The essays' topics are wide-ranging and deeply personal. One is about food - becoming vegetarian, but still finding connection in the salmon ceremonies of her tribe - another about her queerness and another about her relationship with her mother. Throughout all of them, who she is in her passions and love for her people comes through loud and clear. LaPointe identifies her great-grandmother as the storyteller, but she definitely is too. I'm only sorry I didn't read her memoir Red Paint first, as that may have given me more of a clear background to place the individual essays in.… (más)