num_pages: 192
description: The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. Drawing on intimate personal experience A History of My Brief Body is a meditation on grief joy love and sex at the intersection of indigeneity and queerness.Billy-Ray Belcourts debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard Alberta and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece Billy-Rays writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve.What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory gender anger shame and ecstasy but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts among which this book is sure to earn its place.Eye-opening intensely emotional and excessively quotable A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us. Lambda Literary Award Finalist / A Best Book of 2020 Kirkus Reviews Book Riot CBC Globe and Mail Largehearted Boy.Stunning... Happiness this beautiful book says is the ultimate act of resistance. Michelle Hart O The Oprah Magazine
language: English
title: A History of My Brief Body
publisher: None