Survival Is An Invitation To Push Through Hard Times In 'White Magic'
Elissa Washuta's White Magic is full of magic — and pain — as it deals with trauma while exploring cultural inheritance and the way attacks on Native women never stopped.
Comparing multilayered narratives to onions can be an effective way of communicating that they possess various levels and many elements that work together simultaneously.
However, I've always thought the onion comparison implies some kind of organic nature, a type of structure that grows naturally. In the case of Elissa Washuta's , a better comparison is to a hand-rolled cigar — because there was clearly a deliberate layering after a series of violent events and a lot of pressure involved in the process.
