Publishers Weekly: Joshua Whitehead asks moving questions without resorting to simple answers

Fans of the personal essay will relish Whitehead’s evocative, rich prose. 

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world

[In Making Love with the Land,] Whitehead weaves Indigenous Cree language throughout the essays to powerful effect, and though his metaphors can at times be winding, he asks moving questions without resorting to simple answers—“Can a body be sovereign if you continually self-destruct it?” he asks, and “What does it mean to let go of the self?” Fans of the personal essay will relish Whitehead’s evocative, rich prose. 

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