Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force—water—through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers. For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing—in all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow, across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skied on...

Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the...