jonny appleseed joshua whitehead sparknotes

'A lot of people are reading him as this hyper-confident, super-suave swindling character. From that came this shiny, glittered figure of light for myself. When I took those little poems and planted them into this new idea for a story, Jonny took the stage and was like, 'Here I am - write me into the world.' Jonny is the better parts of me, hyperbolized. He came from poems that I excised from full-metal indigiqueer. He's this little kid obsessed with the beatniks and problem novels like Go Ask Alice. 'Jonny is a character that's been with me since I was 17 or 18. Why Joshua Whitehead wrote Jonny Appleseed

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Jonny Appleseed was on the longlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter and dreams. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages and linkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. The next seven days are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the 'rez,' and his former life, to attend the funeral of his stepfather. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. 'You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine' is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young two-spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead won Canada Reads 2021, when it was championed by Devery Jacobs.

Jonny appleseed joshua whitehead sparknotes