

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
Categories: Fiction, Indigenous, Literary Fiction, Lgbtq+
Author: Joshua Whitehead
Narrator: Joshua Whitehead
Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 10/24/2019
Categories: Fiction, Indigenous, Literary Fiction, Lgbtq+
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.
This was just the slice of life narrative I really dig. Book 15 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge.......more
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
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
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
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