The Wrong Kind of Indian
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The Wrong Kind of Indian by Jessica Mehta
You look something. Jennifer had heard this her entire life as a white-washed half-Cherokee, half-white girl in a small Oregon town. THE WRONG KIND OF INDIAN is a thinly-veiled memoir-style story of what it means to claim your identity after a dysfunctional childhood steeped in sexuality and eventual homelessness, parents who toe the line between neglect and abuse, and the flailing that occurs when you don't feel like you belong. Spanning the challenging bridge across 30 - from 27 to 34 years old - and set in the Pacific Northwest, Costa Rica and India, The Wrong Kind of Indian is a journey of cultural pride, self exploration, and search for love through Oregon, Costa Rica and India.
Mehta, Jessica: - Jessica Mehta is a multi-award-winning poet and author of over one dozen books. She's currently a poetry editor at Bending Genres Literary Review, Airlie Press, and the peer-reviewed Exclamat!on journal. During 2018-19, she was a fellow at Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington DC where she curated an anthology of poetry by incarcerated indigenous women and created Red/Act, a pop-up virtual reality poetry experience using proprietary software. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and native Oregonian, place and personal ancestry inform much of Jessica's creative work. Jessica's novel The Wrong Kind of Indian won gold at the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs). Jessica has also received numerous visiting fellowships in recent years, including the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library at Indiana University at Bloomington and the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship at The British Library. Visual representations of her work have been featured at galleries and exhibitions around the world including IA&A Hillyer in Washington DC and The Emergency Gallery in Sweden. Jessica is a popular speaker and panelist, featured recently at events like the US State Department's National Poetry Month event, Poets as Cultural Emissaries: A Conversation with Women Writers, as well as the Women's Transatlantic Prison Activism Since 1960 symposium at Oxford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781942545477 |
| ISBN 10 | 1942545479 |
| Title | The Wrong Kind of Indian |
| Author | Jessica Mehta |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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