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.
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..
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.
Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.
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 .
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
