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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

4.18 · Rating details · 1,964 ratings · 311 reviews

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter prin ...more

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Mar 23, 2020 Lala BooksandLala rated it really liked it

This was just the slice of life narrative I really dig.

Book 15 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge.

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Nov 04, 2018 Meike rated it it was amazing

Shelves: canada, 2018-read

I've never read anything like this, and I just loved it: Joshua Whitehead wrote a coming-of-age story about Jonny, a young 2SQ (Two-Spirit, queer Indigenous) person who leaves the rez to make a life for himself in the city. There, Jonny is supporting himself as a sex worker and gets caught up in a love triangle with Tias and Jordan who are also Native American (if you want to know their gender, just read the book! :-)). When Jonny's stepfather dies, he has to make enough money to travel back to I've never read anything like this, and I just loved it: Joshua Whitehead wrote a coming-of-age story about Jonny, a young 2SQ (Two-Spirit, queer Indigenous) person who leaves the rez to make a life for himself in the city. There, Jonny is supporting himself as a sex worker and gets caught up in a love triangle with Tias and Jordan who are also Native American (if you want to know their gender, just read the book! :-)). When Jonny's stepfather dies, he has to make enough money to travel back to the rez in order to support his mourning mother...

This novel shines with its fantastic protagonist and first-person narrator who, while trying to come to terms with who he is, contemplates questions of family, home, tradition, sexuality, love and friendship - and Jonny is not the passive type: For all the setbacks, pain and hardship he has endured, he is still someone who dares to feel life with all its ups and downs, who throws himself into it, who unapologetically lives the way he wants to. All characters in this novel are highly complex, with their personal tragedies and traumas, but also their own dreams and aspirations.

I have to admit that first I didn't know what 2SQ was, but there's an interesting text by Whitehead which he wrote when he withdrew from the Lambda Award that had nominated his book full-metal indigiqueer in the "Trans Poetry" category. Whitehead explained: "I recognize the difficulty of categorizing Two-Spirit (2SQ) within Western conceptualizations of sex, sexuality, and gender. I cling to Two-Spirit because it became an honour song that sung me back into myself as an Indigenous person, a nehiyaw (Cree), an Oji-Cree; I have placed it into my maskihkîwiwat, my medicine bag, because it has healed and nourished me whenever I needed it. To be Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, for me, is a celebration of the fluidity of gender, sex, sexuality, and identities, one that is firmly grounded within nehiyawewin (the Cree language) and nehiyaw world-views."

This quote also sheds light on "Jonny Appleseed", where Whitehead frequently includes Cree words and talks about Oji-Cree traditions and how they shape the protagonist and his life both on the rez and in the city. This is not a didactic book though - the reader learns about Oji-Cree culture while learning about Jonny's thoughts and emotions, which is a realistic representation of how our upbringing and cultural contexts influence our personalities.

I don't feel like I can write a review that does this novel justice. This is a book that makes you feel like you can connect to and understand people who live in a country you never visited and in a culture you know almost nothing about. You close the book and you start missing Jonny, because his humanity and his humor transcend all that separates you from him. Joshua Whitehead needs to write more books ASAP. ...more

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Jul 09, 2018 CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian rated it it was amazing

Shelves: queer, two-spirit, poc-canlesbrarian, indigenous, 5-stars, fiction, sex-work, canadian

What a beautiful, sad, funny book. It's the most poignant reminder I've had in a while about how powerful and effecting a first person narrative can be. Jonny, the two-spirit main character, carries the book with his raw, hilarious, and insightful voice. The story meanders through his memories, mostly of his kokum, mom, and his great first love Tias, while in the present Jonny prepares to go back to the rez for his mom's boyfriend's funeral.

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Jan 03, 2019 Gerhard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: gay-interest, favorites, 2019

I am so chuffed that Joshua Whitehead won the Gay Fiction category in the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards! Hugely deserved. And kudos to Arsenal Pulp Press for bagging additional awards for Lesbian Fiction (The Tiger Flu) and Transgender Fiction (Little Fish).

I recently read an article by Jonathan Rauch, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, entitled ‘It’s Time to Drop the LGBT From LGBTQ’. Rauch’s basic argument is that we need a new term that effectively humanises all sexual minorities, as opposed I am so chuffed that Joshua Whitehead won the Gay Fiction category in the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards! Hugely deserved. And kudos to Arsenal Pulp Press for bagging additional awards for Lesbian Fiction (The Tiger Flu) and Transgender Fiction (Little Fish).

I recently read an article by Jonathan Rauch, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, entitled ‘It’s Time to Drop the LGBT From LGBTQ’. Rauch’s basic argument is that we need a new term that effectively humanises all sexual minorities, as opposed to reducing them to gloops of alphabet soup.

To some extent, the very artificiality and awkwardness of the acronymic acrobatics speak to their ecumenical aspirations. Unlike designations popularized by oppressors (Negro, Oriental) or based on national or ethnic particularism (Italian, Jew, wasp), LGBTQ is pointedly coalitional and inclusive, and we chose it ourselves. In that respect, its intended message is admirable. But it carries an unintended message as well: an embrace of the identity politics and group separatism that have soured millions of Americans on progressivism and egalitarianism.

And we all know where that has ended up, with Trump chipping away at hard-won civil liberty freedoms and victories on a daily basis. I think this point is brought home quite forcefully by a novel such as this, where Joshua Whitehead manages the miraculous task of placing the reader within the skin of a “Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx”.

Jonny’s positioning in the alphabet soup of contemporary identity and gender politics is, er, a bit fluid, but that is precisely Whitehead’s point. We need to understand everybody as people, and not as acronyms.

(Speaking of which, there is no explanation in the book for ‘NDN’, which lead me on a rambling but highly informative Google search … so perhaps that is part of the author’s project here as well, to force the reader to investigate further, and get out of his or her comfort zone a bit more.)

The writing here is gorgeous. You can’t simply quote a single sentence, but rather long swathes of ecstatic prose. So I just gave up, as virtually my entire Kindle version was turning yellow. Colour, ethnicity, and cultural heritage are major themes here, which resonated particularly with me in a South African context.

Whitehead is too savvy a writer to wear his polemic on his sleeve though, so instead hides it in the secret folds and orifices of Jonny’s body, who comments at the beginning that “There are tons of unfuckable holes in me that need to be filled.”

One would expect such a story to have a traditional and conservative non-happy ending, but again Whitehead is effortlessly subversive in the way he subverts reader expectations. This is a beautiful and important book that demands not only to be read, but to be lived out as a manifesto of tolerance and equality. ...more

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Nov 19, 2018 Krista rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2018, can-con, indigenous

It turns out that Johnny Appleseed is some American folk legend who became famous by planting apple trees in West Virginia. I didn't understand why we'd sung about him in camp – I wanted to know about Louis Riel, Chief Peguis, and Buffy St. Marie, but instead we were honouring some white man throwing apple seeds in frontier America. Apparently he was this moral martyr figure who remained a virgin in exchange for the promise of two wives in heaven. Oh, and he loved animals, and I heard he save

It turns out that Johnny Appleseed is some American folk legend who became famous by planting apple trees in West Virginia. I didn't understand why we'd sung about him in camp – I wanted to know about Louis Riel, Chief Peguis, and Buffy St. Marie, but instead we were honouring some white man throwing apple seeds in frontier America. Apparently he was this moral martyr figure who remained a virgin in exchange for the promise of two wives in heaven. Oh, and he loved animals, and I heard he saved some horse by hand-feeding him blades of grass, Walt Whitman-style. I would bet my left nut that he was a slave owner too and planted his seeds on Treaty territory. All I know is this: apples are crazy expensive on the rez and they had now become bad things in my head.

Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer author Joshua Whitehead has created a really remarkable character with Jonny Appleseed: knowing himself to be different from the other boys while growing up on the rez, Jonny eventually declares his own Two-Spirit nature – which comes as no surprise to his rock-solid mother and doting kookum – and after high school, moves to Winnipeg where he hopes to find love. As the story starts, Jonny's stepdad has died, his Mom wants Jonny to return home for the funeral, and the only way he can hustle up the money is to turn a few more tricks as a (mostly cyber-based) “NDN glitter princess”. Over the time it takes for Jonny to make enough money, the narrative fluidly traces Jonny's history and present, showing pain and love and friendship and family; Jonny has had it hard without becoming hard.

Throughout his life, Jonny has had one good friend, Thias – a “friend with benefits” who claims he isn't gay – and throughout the story, this relationship is Jonny's rock:

Instead of saying we liked or loved each other, we just lay there on our backs, our brown skin shiny in the rosy light that poured in from the evening sun. We surveyed each others' body: him seeing the scar above my clavicle from when I fell down the stairs as a kid, and me seeing the patch of hair missing from his scalp. I knew then that I loved him.

Funny how an NDN “love you” sounds more like, “I'm in pain with you.”

The book is full of these quotable lines, but also full of pop culture references, quirky observations, and social commentary (it's not overtly political, but it's apparent that history and politics have shaped reality for Jonny and those he knows). It also has plenty of graphic sex, violence, and addictions. And still: Jonny isn't broken or defeated; he likes to walk around Walmart and imagine how he'd furnish his own house some day. The most vital part of Jonny Appleseed is best described by Joshua Whitehead himself in the afterword:

I write this book with the goal of showing you that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a “was”, that we are not the ethnographic and romanticized notations of “revered mystic” or “shamanic”, instead we are an is and a coming. In nehiyawewin, there are no masculine or feminine attributes, instead we have animations in which we hold all our relations. We are accountable to those kin, be they inanimate or non-human, or be they unabashedly queer, femme, bottom, pained, broken. We put our most vulnerable in the centre and for once I do just that: 2S folx and Indigenous women are centred here. I hold our relations accountable for us for once. Jonny has taught me a lot of things but there are two that I want to share with you: one, a good story is always a healing ceremony, we recuperate, re-member, and rejuvenate those we storytell into the world; and two, if we animate our pain, it becomes something we can make love to.

Like many others, I've heard the term “Two-Spirit” and imagined I had an idea of what that meant, so it was very interesting to me to read a story that focussed on what the lived experience of a Two-Spirit person is actually like. This book is both an eye-opener and a thought-provoking read; I'll round up to four stars. ...more

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Oct 31, 2019 TraceyL rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, canadian-authors

The story of a young, gay, First Nations Canadian man who works as a prostitute, and what it was like growing up gay on a reservation. I think it was pretty forgettable.

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Aug 30, 2018 Jessie rated it it was amazing

Stop everything you are doing and read this book. It’s everything I love about Indigenous storytelling. About a young Oji-Cree two spirit Indigequeer NDN in the week leading up to his stepfather’s funeral, this book is a gift. I appreciate the contemporary nature of this book, both in it’s sense of now (the technology, the terminology, what’s current in the world of pop culture), but also in it’s sense of place (it’s the world exactly now, it’s Winnipeg and Peguis exactly now). The other thing a ...more

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Apr 11, 2018 Mya rated it really liked it

There are so many things in this novel that make it beautifully queer. Its 2-spirit protagonist; its nonlinear timeline that intentionally meanders through past stories of family and tradition, trauma and survival; its descriptions of eroticism and the discovery and exploration of sexuality ... I could go on.

Joshua Whitehead is a master of words. There were at least a dozen killer sentences that I felt compelled to highlight as I was reading, particularly because I felt they captured the experie ...more

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Nov 11, 2018 Emmkay rated it it was ok

Shelves: indigenous, canadian, gender-stuff, 2018-reads, fiction

Some beautiful and poignant writing, and also some very funny lines, in this story about a two-spirited young indigenous man in Winnipeg, trying to earn enough money webcamming to catch a ride back to the rez for a funeral. It felt kind of like a one-man Fringe show in its tone and its focus on the protagonist - I would have appreciated more narrative momentum (and maybe fewer bodily fluids and smells, but hey, that’s me). 2.5.

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Sep 04, 2018 Shawn Mooney (Shawn The Book Maniac) marked it as did-not-finish

Shelves: did-not-finish-2018

This read like a shitty first draft, alas. There were enough tender, raw sentences scattered throughout the first several chapters to keep me going, mesmerized by a wee bit of evidence of an exciting new voice. But after that, unfortunately, it read like slapdash notes toward a novel rather than fully realized fictional prose—and notes published in haphazard order at that. Bailed 60% of the way in.

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Mar 29, 2019 LenaRibka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: general-literary-fiction, glbt, lambda-literary-award-finalists, cultural

31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist

It was like reading a poem. Heartbreaking storytelling, a colorful mosaic of beautiful prose and raw reality, fragments of touching memories and tender spirituality, funny and sad at once.

A very impressive debut novel. ...more

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Jul 02, 2018 Alanna Why rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorites

Like most queer lit, this book is SAD but also GOOD. I really liked the non-linear way it was told and how you really got to know the characters through the vignettes of Jonny's memory. The best part of this book is any scene with Jonny and his kokum because they LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH and it is VERY NICE.

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Oct 10, 2018 George K. Ilsley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: canada, fiction, first-nations, spiritual, gay, glbt

A powerful fiction debut. I first met Jonny in the pages of Malahat, and was very pleased to see he was going to be able to roam through his own book. Jonny's voice is strong and visceral, and there is a lot going on in this novel. Worth reading and re-reading. Strong debut novel from a new voice.

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Dec 19, 2019 Daniel Justice rated it it was amazing

A phenomenal work--raw, unflinching, poignant, hilarious, and deeply moving. I enjoyed it as a reader and as a teacher of Indigenous literature, and it's one of my students' favourite reads. Highly recommended.

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Aug 22, 2018 Rana rated it liked it

Oh boy, this is a bit of a stream of consciousness doozy. No real plot, no real story, just a brief foray into somebody's life. In a very good way, though.

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May 26, 2019 Kiki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary-fiction, queer, canada, indigenous

Gad damn.

What the hell am I going to read after this book?

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Jun 28, 2020 MargaretDH rated it it was amazing

Shelves: canada, contemporary, audiobook, literature, awards

Jonny, our narrator, is a two-spirited young man living in Winnipeg, where he moved after his youth on the Peguis Reservation in central Manitoba. He's also a self-styled NDN glitter princess, and he makes his money as a cam boy. The action of the book takes place over a few days, when Jonny finds out his stepfather has died, and he needs to make enough money to pay his rent and get back to the reservation for the funeral, but much of the book consists of flashbacks and memories of Jonny's exper Jonny, our narrator, is a two-spirited young man living in Winnipeg, where he moved after his youth on the Peguis Reservation in central Manitoba. He's also a self-styled NDN glitter princess, and he makes his money as a cam boy. The action of the book takes place over a few days, when Jonny finds out his stepfather has died, and he needs to make enough money to pay his rent and get back to the reservation for the funeral, but much of the book consists of flashbacks and memories of Jonny's experiences with his family and growing up on the reservation.

This surprised me in how wonderful it was. Whitehead is a poet, and he has a knack for finding the beauty in the everyday. Jonny has a pigeon friend that lives outside his apartment, and I love that he made me look at pigeons in a whole new way. He's also got a real ear for dialogue and speech patterns, and a wry sense of humour. I wished the book were longer, just so I could have more conversations and more of Jonny's funny asides. He also really brings Winnipeg to life, a city that has it's own character.

Whitehead also does a wonderful job with complicated relationships, and how love can look many different ways. I did not expect this book to have such a strong emotional core. In his author's note, Whitehead said he wanted to highlight the strength of Indigenous women, and he presented us with a range of interesting women: Jonny's kookum, who is loving and hilarious in equal measure; his mother, who is pugnacious and Jonny's rock; Peggy, who is always busy with her multiple side hustles, yet always has time for community; and Jordan, resilient and ready to make her way in the world. I loved them all.

Jonny's life is not idyllic, and speaking of complicated relationships, Whitehead explores Jonny's use of drugs and alcohol, his feelings about camming, and what it was like to grow up different in a group of people already considered different by most the world. But for all this, Jonny isn't a mess. He is unbent and unbroken, moving through a world that's not always friendly.

I listened to the audio version of this, and I would definitely recommend you do the same. Whitehead reads it himself, and he really made Jonny come alive for me. He's got great pacing and vocal flexibility when it comes to the dialogue sections, and he infused a lot of emotion into the places where it needed to be. The book itself was probably a little over 4 stars, but the audio experiences bumps it up to a solid 5. ...more

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Dec 23, 2019 Nicky rated it it was amazing

4.5* rounded up.

I had been dragging my heels to read this as part of Read Harder 2019 task #18. Instead I found a book I loved and a character that was unique, real, a little too raw at times and an “NDN glitter princess”.

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Jun 14, 2018 Kat Rogue rated it really liked it

At times I wanted to throw this book across the room. For good reason! Times when the world was cruel and Joshua Whitehead lays just the right train of thought to make you feel it in your gut. Or times when the throbbing horniness of it makes me feel like the last thing I wanna be holding in my hands at that moment is a book.

Whitehead has a gift for turning pain into pleasure, twisting the bullied moments our glitterprincess survives and making it an integral part of his self awakening. It is n ...more

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Jun 30, 2019 Becky rated it it was amazing

I was immediately charmed by Jonny, and while I sometimes struggled to keep the intertwined present and past storylines in order, I was so interested in his journey and immersed in the reading experience. One of my favorite aspects was the description of intimacy between family, as well as friends/lovers. Seeing people show physical love to reach other was done so beautifully in this book again and again.⁣

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Jan 05, 2019 Cdn Reader (Inactive) rated it did not like it

Shelves: indigenous, did-not-finish, read-in-2019

I read to page 30 and found the book too raw and graphic to persist with.

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Jul 29, 2020 Alex Johnson rated it really liked it

Shelves: klc-summer-2020

In the language of Rudine Sims Bishop, this book was a window for me—straight, cis, white immigrant living on stolen land. Jonny Appleseed is an exploration of Two-Spirit/indigiqueer life, jumping from present to past to trace Jonny's upbringing. While there is trauma here and his life is nowhere near easy, Jonny is accepted and loved for who he is by the most important people in his life.

This novel reminded me of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous in its singular character focus, queer coming of a ...more

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Apr 14, 2020 Carolyn Klassen rated it really liked it

Shelves: own-voices, 2020, diverse-books, lgbtqia-reads

An Own Voices perspective we rarely see in indigenous literature, let alone books by non-indigenous folx. A complex protagonist who you really root for, you want him to succeed and be happy. Whitehead never shames his protagonist for sex work nor glorifies it. It's an honest way to make money and some people need cash. And there is no shame in it. An unflinching look at the life of a Two-Spirit sex worker who loves his kokum and his best friend.

It read almost like a memoir with the way it was l ...more

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Dec 25, 2019 OK rated it really liked it

Shelves: mid-twenties, qtbipoc

Wily, tenacious, erotic. Generous and ripped open. Gratitude to Joshua Whitehead for writing such a momentous, excavating, intimate, humourous, and hungry novel.

There were several scenes that seared themselves into my memory: Kokum's porcupine lesson, night swimming with Tias, Jordan slamming down an expired coupon on the McDonald’s counter with that look on her face. The prose in these scenes clicked perfectly. In general, I though Whitehead’s writing was beautiful and raw, though I felt that ...more

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Oct 12, 2019 Kurt Ostrow rated it really liked it

"I am my own best medicine.

Truth be told, I did need a lot of healing throughout my teen years...They'd cuddle me at night and then kick me out in the morning, denying any closeness and blaming it all on the drink. Truth be told, I think I was more of a leech than they were. I loved the burning hot flesh of brown skin turning red from tension and friction. I loved seeing the blood throb in their veins, popping like earthworms on their forearms and wrists—blood that said I'm surviving and you can ...more

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Aug 06, 2018 Rebecca rated it liked it

I’d like to give this three and a half, almost 4. Not quite.

I enjoyed the voice of Jonny; I felt his story. I did not always love the way he told it. Style more than anything. It meandered so much, that when I read the back synopsis again halfway through — saw that his goal was to get home for a funeral — I was surprised. I’d forgotten all about that.

But I think there’s something special about the book as a series of vignettes. There is something very genuine here. It had palpable authenticity ...more

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Jul 30, 2018 Brooke rated it really liked it

"Who the hell gonna love me now, Kokum? Whose gonna suck the pain from my skin, teach me to love it into humility? Who, Kokum, who?”

This is a powerful book about a Two-Spirit/Indiqueer individual finding his way in a modern world, both on and off the reserve. It is a story of family, love and traditions, as well as a story of sexuality, trauma and survival. It is beautiful and heart wrenching.

“Sometimes I don’t like how life goes on. And sometimes I don’t think it should.”

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Jul 17, 2018 Hasan Namir rated it it was amazing

Excellent book from Joshua Whitehead beautifully written with an interesting non-linear narrative that never loses power. A page-turner as I couldn’t put the book down and completed it in a very short period of time. It’s queer indigenous writing at its best and hope to read more works from him in the future.

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Nov 23, 2018 Mj rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018, first-book, canadian, indigenous, fiction

Jonny Appleseed was a longlist nominatee on a high profile Canadian fiction award and a shortlist nominee on another. Given the minimal number of nominations on these lists and the wealth of talented authors in Canada, this double nomination got my attention, especially since Jonny Appleseed is Joshua Whitehead’s debut novel.

The book is fiction but reads like a memoir - one of my favourite genres. Both the primary fictional character and the author are two-spirited indigenous individuals. Based ...more

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Sep 29, 2018 Laurie Burns rated it it was amazing

Shelves: canadian

Jonny Appleseed is written by Joshua Whitehouse and is on the long list for the Giller Prize at this time. The short list will be announced tomorrow, September 30th, 2018. I have only read three of the long listed books, but I am rooting for Whitehouse. This book is important.

I just finished reading it and almost started reading it again right away.

I really like books that are written in this sort of free-verse writtentimeline. I love feeling the emotion of characters and it seeming like I was ...more

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Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. He is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Indigenous literatures and cultures at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory. His most recent book of poetry, Full-Metal Indigiqueer, was shortlisted for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. In 2016, h ...more