Book of the Month Club - "A Mind Spread Out On The Ground"
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Join Bel Canto Books owner and head booknerd Jhoanna for our Book of the Month (BOTM) online book club.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we are reading and discussing "A Mind Spread Out On the Ground" by Alicia Elliott on Tuesday, 11/10 at 7PM Pacific.
About the book:
"The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to “a mind spread out on the ground.” In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced.
Elliott’s deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political."
To purchase a copy of the book, please visit:
https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground
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Free to join; please register to receive Zoom meeting link.