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annewalk

annewalk@bookwyrm.club

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Emerging fiction writer/poet of mixed heritage, Haudenosaunee (Cayuga) and Hungarian, living in Ontario, Canada. Published in Room Magazine, Vocamus Press, Humber Literary Review, Canadian Authors Association – Toronto. Love #writing, #art, #tech, and how they intersect. On Mastodon @annewalk@tootsweet.social

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reviewed A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Hardcover, 2019, Doubleday Canada) 5 stars

In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native …

Like going home

5 stars

These essays illuminate a lot of my own family memories and traumas. This makes it both a difficult read and a nostalgic read. Going home when home is a difficult place brings up feelings that are difficult to explain to people outside of those experiences but Alicia manages to bring the reader in without turning her stories into trauma porn.

reviewed Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Split Tooth (2019, Penguin Random House) 5 stars

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with …

Like Memory, Dream, Legend, Song

5 stars

I'm not even sure I can call this a novel so much as an experience. Intensely poetic and crass, the main character's narrative slips in and out of dreams and, by the end of the book, a character of legend. The unflinching look at childhood trauma can be difficult to read.