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Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
4.25
dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This was so beautiful and raw and biting. A painfully sharp rendering of an indigiqueer/2spirit experience in modern North America. 

There is a lot of graphic mlm sex, and while I understood the intent to be shocking and uncomfortable, I would personally have preferred a bit less. I also read this one on audio, and had a challenging time keeping up with how very nonlinear the story was told. There were so many beautiful lines that I may have to pick up a physical copy at some point to annotate, but really enjoyed the authors narration.