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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Book by Alicia Elliott. A lot of powerful pieces; I'm not sure what to call them. "Creative essays" doesn't sound interesting enough. They're a mix of personal pieces and meditations on history and culture, often in the same chapter.
I first read it two years ago, but I want to revisit it. The title piece talks about her mother's mental illness but starts with a hilarious couple of lines; there's another punning on multiple meanings of "dark matter"; and the last uses a question-and-answer format to talk about...well, more than just the Indian residential schools. Confronting Canada's racism against Native people more generally.
I saw the title on a list from Amnesty International Canada for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
I'll put the link below, since there are other things people might like to read, but I don't want to give the impression that the book's all doom and gloom - it covers so many topic's and the structuring of everything is so...I don't know, it seems all over the place at first - a spread-out mind! - but then ties together beautifully.
It's kind of what I aspire to, using ADHD as a literary technique (because why_not).
Anyway, here's the link: https://amnesty.ca/blog/reflect-and-act-on-truth-and-reconciliation-day/
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