This Accident of Being Lost [Paperback]

This Accident of Being Lostis the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collectionIslands 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 Lostburns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.

Leanne Simpsonis the author of three books:Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back,The Gift Is In the Making, andIslands of Decolonial Love, and the editor ofLighting the Eighth Fire,This Is An Honour Song(with Kiera Ladner), andThe Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement(Kino-nda-niimi collective). Leanne holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba and has lectured at universities across Canada. She is of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation.

“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 ló&