This
Accident of Being Lost
is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from
award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake
Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of
the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed
collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she
continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and
out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable
categorization. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt;
Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting "ARE
THEY GETTING IT?"; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the
boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper
middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in
rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science
fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This
Accident of Being Lost
burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard,
challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
