![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the novel goes on and Jonny prepares for his return home to the rez, he begins to piece these contradictions together, finding meaning in their ruptures. Jonny’s life is a series of contradictions: breaking and healing, pain and love, sorrow and joy. In these seven days we are exposed to a whirlwind of stories - stories about love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, his connection with his kokum (grandmother) and his first love (Tias). We follow Jonny’s life over the course of a mere seven days, before he has to return home for his stepfather’s funeral. Jonny, a gay NDN (shorthand spelling for Indian, a term that some Native Americans in the United States use to refer to themselves) who identifies as Two-Spirit Indi-queer, grows up on the reservation (rez) and eventually decides to leave for the big city of Winnipeg, where he becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes his NDN identity to make ends meet. “Jonny Appleseed” is a transformative book with a riveting plot and salient themes that will move any reader. ![]()
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