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Coexistence: Stories
Coexistence: Stories | Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painters love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor returns home to conduct research only to be haunted by a dark specter. The stories and voices in Billy-Ray Belcourts debut story collection are buoyed by philosophical undergirding, poetic demand, and the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics. Belcourt pirouettes through the short story form in his signature staccato voice, imagining a range of characters from all walks of native life. He is an expert in celebrating the ways Indigenous peoples make total conquest impossible. These characters passionate insistence on loving and desiring and hoping, amid the existential terror of colonizationand Billy-Ray Belcourts nuanced and attentive rendering of itis the most revolutionary of acts. Vauhini Vara, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Immortal King Rao A brilliant exploration of the boundaries both imposed and imagined that exist between beings and the spaces we inhabit. This engaging, alive text drills right to the heart of what it is to be Indigenous in the twenty-first century. Mona Susan Power, author of A Council of Dolls
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Coexistence: Stories | Billy-Ray Belcourt
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I‘m two stories into COEXISTENCE after last night‘s reading session with Daisy-May, and yep. Billy-Ray Belcourt stays on my must-read list. It especially struck me how these first stories balanced fear and hope; a collection-wide theme? Guess I‘ll find out!

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 5mo
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5🌟/5🌟