We are thrilled to host a space where literacy is celebrated, the love of books is shared and we are back with our Book Club for Adults starting August 9, 2024
Please register using this link
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Our first book we will be reading is A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt. A slim but electrifying debut memoir about the preciousness and precariousness of queer Indigenous life.
Billy-Ray Belcourt’s 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 Cree Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and 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 repeatedly the power of words to both devastate and console us.
Content warnings: coarse language, violence, racism, homophobia
This is an in-person program only.
Books will be provided to folks who register for this program
