<p><b>In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit? <\/b><\/p><p>Patty Krawec doesn\u2019t want to be a \u201cGood Indian.\u201d When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec gave them a list. This list then exploded into a book club, then into a podcast about a year of Indigenous reading, and then, ultimately, into this book. <\/p><p>Drawing on conversations with readers and authors, <i>Bad Indians Book Club<\/i> delves into writing about history, science, and gender, and into memoirs and fiction, all by \u201cBad Indians\u201d and those like them, whose refusal of the dominant narrative of the wemitigoozhiwag (European settlers) opens up new possibilities for identity and existence. <\/p><p>Introducing each chapter with flash fiction about a shapeshifting Deer Woman, who is on her own journey to decide who she is, Krawec leads us into a place of wisdom and medicine where stories of and by marginalized writers help us imagine a thousand worlds waiting to be born. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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