Noopiming

The Cure for White Ladies (Indigenous Americas)

De: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Narrado por: Tiffany Ayalik

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism.

In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy.

Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman, their conscience; Sabe, a gentle giant, their marrow; Adik, the caribou, their nervous system; and Asin and Lucy, the humans who represent their eyes, ears, and brain.

Simpson’s book As We Have Always Done argued for the central place of storytelling in imagining radical futures. Noopiming (Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush”) enacts these ideas. The novel’s characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, and Fjällräven Kånken backpacks.

A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits - and the daily work of healing.

©2020 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (P)2020 House of Anansi Press, Inc.

Beautifully written, and beautifully narrated

I am a white woman who wants to learn more about the people whose land I live on and First Nations.
This book is a beautiful meditation on interconnection and the narration is like having poetry read to you.
I can read the story now, but I am glad I had it read to me first for proper pronunciation of names and words, and also for the pure enjoyment of it

hooked at first

i liked listening to this on audio the first 3/4 had me in its grasp but i lost focus/understanding near the end

Brilliant

Truly brilliantly written story. Gorgeous story telling. Beautiful lessons. Knowing seeing living revealed. Veil lifted.