Alicia Elliott recommends The Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Jane van Koeverden | CBC | Posted: June 13, 2017 12:43 PM | Last Updated: July 10, 2017
June was Indigenous Book Club Month. Every day in June, CBC Books published a recommendation from an Indigenous writer for a book by another Indigenous author.
Alicia Elliott recommends The Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm.
"I expected some of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's tenderly-rendered short stories to break my heart, and they did. What I didn't expect was for those same stories to put my heart back together. The Stone Collection explores the lives and loves of Anishinaabe people with so much care it made me openly and very awkwardly weep basically every place I read it — but it also made me laugh, think and hope. My advice: read this book slow. Writing like this deserves to be savoured."
Alicia Elliott is a Haudenosaunee writer who lives in Brantford, Ont. She's contributed writing to Room Magazine, The Malahat Review and The Toast.