Sasha Lapointe
Auteur de Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Sasha Lapointe
Oeuvres associées
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers (2019) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Lapointe, Sasha taqʷšəblu
- Sexe
- female
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Listes
Non-fiction (1)
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 182
- Popularité
- #118,785
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 11
- ISBN
- 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.… (plus d'informations)