num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: Jonny Appleseed
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press