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A review by sittingwishingreading
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Noopiming is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous and lives in the liminality of so many tensions - past/present, urban/natural, colonized/decolonial, living/dying, survival/thriving/living with trauma. It is a fragmented book of mostly poetry, some prose, and so, so much emotion.
Simpson is an incredible storyteller, and this book flows from character to character, between time and place to create a deeply spiritually focused story describing the pain and purpose of living and community, even in the liminality, even with deep pain, in times of ritual and celebration, in times or survival.
Simpson also writes in, of, and for Anishinaabe people. My understanding of this book is limited by my Whiteness. I know that this book holds so much more for Anishinaabe people. I am grateful to have read it, and I loved it, and. If you read it, know that unless you are Anishinaabe, it is not written for you, and that frame is essential in holding this book.
Simpson is an incredible storyteller, and this book flows from character to character, between time and place to create a deeply spiritually focused story describing the pain and purpose of living and community, even in the liminality, even with deep pain, in times of ritual and celebration, in times or survival.
Simpson also writes in, of, and for Anishinaabe people. My understanding of this book is limited by my Whiteness. I know that this book holds so much more for Anishinaabe people. I am grateful to have read it, and I loved it, and. If you read it, know that unless you are Anishinaabe, it is not written for you, and that frame is essential in holding this book.