The book is beautifully written, poetic, lyrical, a signature style.

She is one of the world’s experts on the subject area, which gives the subjective text a solid foundation.

“As a Native intellectual and a Dakota intellectual, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn constructs indigeneity as well as her own life while deconstructing U.S. settler-colonialism. Tags: Women writers, memoir, Native American (Crow Creek Sioux), education, Indian studies In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn It is a strong and well-told narrative of adoption, survival, resilience, and is truthfully revealed.”–Luana Ross (Bitterroot Salish), codirector of Native Voices Documentary Film at the University of Washington and author of Inventing the Savage “One Salish-Kootenai woman’s journey, this memoir is a heart-wrenching story of finding family and herself, and of a particularly horrific time in Native history. Tags: Memoir, Native American (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes), women writers, family, adoption, #OwnVoices These lists are getting long I may have to start dividing them up! There are so many great titles here, which will you read?īitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Susan Devan Harness So here’s the October 2018 New Reads for the Rest of Us list. These are just guidelines and I reserve the right to include (or not!) any books I see fit. I usually add to this list as I learn of others if you have a suggestion, please share it in the comments below! If you’d like to learn more about which books I focus on, see my Review Policy. I also want to highlight books by gender non-conforming people. My lists meant to be intersectional, feminist, and trans-inclusive. With these monthly lists, I aim to amplify the books written by those who are historically underrepresented including, but not limited to: women, women of color, women from the Global South, women who are Black, Indigenous, dis/abled, queer, fat, immigrants, Muslim, sex-positive, and more. Welcome to the October 2018 New Reads for the Rest of Us!

When a Bulbul Sings by Hawaa Ayoub