Braille, Book

Whitehead, Joshua, (Writer) author

Jonny Appleseed / Joshua Whitehead.

Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2018]

©2018

1 volume (unpaged) ; 28 cm

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez," and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.

Adult

Braille books

Gay youth -- Fiction

Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Fiction

Self-realization -- Fiction

Two-spirit people -- Fiction

Homecoming -- Fiction

Canadian fiction

Bildungsromans

Braille books

BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service braille embosser

Unified English Braille.

2 volumes braille (contracted)

Transcribed 2019 for National Network for Equitable Library Service.

Volume 1 print pages 1 - 113.

Volume 2 print pages 114 - 223.

Braille. Outlook, Saskatchewan. National Network for Equitable Library Service, 2019. 2 volumes braille.

Jonny Appleseed. Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. 9781551527253.

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Winner of the 2019 Alberta Literary Award for Fiction.

Winner of the 2021 Canada Reads competition.

Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.

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