Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
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Jonny Appleseed
A Novel

Author: Joshua Whitehead

Narrator: Joshua Whitehead

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/24/2019


Synopsis

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve. “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 debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead. 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 princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the “rez”—and his former life—to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of First Nations life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

About Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nehiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is author of the award-winning novel Jonny Appleseed and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, and he is editor of Love after the End. He is assistant professor in the departments of English and international Indigenous studies at the University of Calgary.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lala on March 23, 2020

This was just the slice of life narrative I really dig. Book 15 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge.......more

Goodreads review by Meike on April 09, 2019

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 l......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on June 07, 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......more

Goodreads review by NILTON on April 24, 2021

I think that I wasn’t the targeted audience for this book. It does not matter how much I enjoyed the writing style, but I did not care for the storyline and I thought that it was pointless. I know that this book was nominated for several prizes and won Canada Reads, and for that I had huge expectation......more

Goodreads review by Krista on November 22, 2018

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 thro......more