In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial
Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly
explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and
communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on
reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks,
canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks,
Simpson’s characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of
pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant
struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of
racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but
need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her
people, Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love is a
profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.