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Author Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971- author

Title Noopiming : the cure for white ladies / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Published [Toronto] : Anansi, 2020
©2020

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 MELB  817.06 S6135 A6/N  AVAILABLE
Description 354 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for "in the bush," and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie's 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. Set in the same place as Moodie's colonial memoir, this genre-fluid novel is offered as a cure for Moodie's racist treatment of Mississauga Nishnaabeg in her writing. The giant Sabe meditates on the gifts and challenges of their recent sobriety. Migrating geese make a case for coordinated formation as a way to get out of "one's own cycling head." Racoons turn Bougie Kwe's Zen-garden pond into their personal urban spa. This is a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits who are all busy with the daily labours of healing -- healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. These stories gather up tiny pieces, one at a time, as they slowly circle through the perspectives of different characters, in a breathtaking act of world-building that rewards patience and deep listening. This is the real world, the one where meaning accumulates through close observation and relationship. Enter and be changed."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Issued also in electronic formats
Subject Patience -- Fiction
Listening -- Fiction
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9781487007645
1487007647