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S'està carregant… Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punkde Sasha Lapointe
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is a gut-wrenchng book to read from first to last. LaPointe is a powerful, poetic writer whose story begins with abuse, betrayal and loss. Unfortunately, trauma and betrayal continue throughout much of her life. She does find equilibrium, and perhaps even redemption, but it's a long difficult journey. I totally had no idea what this book was about. For some reason I thought it was going to be about punk rock. I was so wrong. And this book was so fantastic! I am glad I did not know what I was going to read. It is about Sasha who is of the Coast Salish tribe. She tells her story and intersperses her ancestor, Comptia, story in it also. Sasha tells of moving around a lot as a child and the abuse and assaults she lived through. It was not until she looked back on her past that she was able to call it what it was. She speaks of the two main men in her life--Richard and Brandon--and the love she had with each but neither was enough to help her heal. She had to learn how to heal herself with the help of her female ancestors. I liked that she brought Comptia's story into this book as I learned something about the history and culture of the Skagit River area of Washington, a place I know so little of. I admire Sasha, her healing, and her going into her future. I am so glad I read this. Just wonderful! Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Sasha LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. With little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother-a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed-Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, determined to build a better future for herself and her people. Set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Coast Salish ancestral land and imbued with the universal spirit of punk, Red Paint is ultimately a story of the ways we learn to find our true selves while fighting for our right to claim a place of our own. Examining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples. Red Paint is an intersectional autobiography of lineage, resilience, and, above all, the ability to heal. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The book is touching, haunting, full of pain and triumph, grounded in the history and geography of the Salish Sea, and her people. ( )