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A Mind Spread out on the Ground
Written by Alicia Elliott
Narrated by Kyla Garcia
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About this audiobook
From an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer comes a profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression, and racism that offers a profound new way to decolonize our minds.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDreamscape Media
Release dateAug 10, 2020
ISBN9781666556094
Author
Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt and many others. She's had numerous essays nominated for National Magazine Awards, winning Gold in 2017 and an honourable mention in 2020. Her short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 (by Roxane Gay), Best Canadian Stories 2018 and Journey Prize Stories 30. Alicia was chosen by Tanya Talaga as the 2018 recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, was a national bestseller in Canada. It was also nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and won the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Aug 31, 2023
Excellent book. Narrator more suited to children’s lit, though. Her voice was distracting and unsuitable, imo.1 person found this helpful
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Aug 31, 2023
Wonderfully penned essays that challenge us to do better as individuals and a society.