A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning
Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that
rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and
resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.
This Accident of Being Lost is 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 collection Islands of Decolonial Love.
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 Lost burns with a quiet intensity,
like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the
world you thought you knew.