A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

"In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry." --New York Times Book Review

The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced.

Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political.

A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.

Elliott, Alicia: - Alicia Elliott is an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer who has had work published in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Vice, and The Best American Short Stories 2018, among others. She has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised between there and Ohio, she now lives with her husband and child in Brantford, Ontario.

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ISBN 13	9781612198668
ISBN 10	161219866X
Title	A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Author	Alicia Elliott
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2020-08-04
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.