A review by booksthatslay
Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

A brilliant collection of stories about searching for connection and intimacy in a colonized world told through the indigenous perspective. Some are about love while others are about loneliness. Some contain the horrors of being human and some showcase how beautiful being human can be. Belcourt shines the brightest when he is writing about where queerness, intimacy and connection meet. He just really gets it. He writes with a tenderness and confidence that sweeps me away every time. I know I am in great care when I am sitting with Belcourt’s work and Coexistence was no exception.

Favorite stories from Coexistence: Lived Experience, Poetry Class, Literary Festival, & Various People.

Thank you so much to W. W. Norton & Company for the eARC on NetGalley.