This Accident of Being Lost - Stories and Songs

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THIS ACCIDENT OF BEING LOST
Written by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

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These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love.

Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.

A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting "ARE THEY GETTING IT?"; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario.

Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.

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Victoria — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will be reading from her forthcoming collection of short stories, This Accident of Being Lost as part of Open Word: Readings and Ideas. These two readings are co-presented by Camosun College.

Simpson will read at Open Space on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. at Open Space. Her reading at Camosun College, Landsdown Campus will take place on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. in the Wilna Thomas Building, Room 234.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is the author of four books – Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back (2011), nonfiction; The Gift is in the Making (2013), a re-telling of traditional stories; Islands of Decolonial Love (2013), a short story collection; and the forthcoming This Accident of Being Lost, a book of stories and poetry. She is editor of Lighting the Eighth Fire (2008), This Is An Honour Song (2010), and The Winter We Danced (2014). In 2014, Leanne was named the RBC Charles Taylor Emerging Writer by Thomas King.

Praise for Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s books:

“Leanne is a gifted writer who brings passion and commitment to her storytelling and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability to manage an impressive range of genres from traditional storytelling to critical analysis, from poetry to the spoken word, from literary and social activism to song-writing. She is, in my opinion, one of the more articulate and engaged voices of her generation.” - THOMAS KING, AUTHOR OF THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN: A CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF NATIVE PEOPLE IN NORTH AMERICA
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