
Mixtapes and Stories: An Original Essay by 2023 PNBA Book Award Winner Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
When I was still small enough to sit on my great grandmother’s lap I wasn’t afraid of anything. I remember trips out to the Olympic Peninsula where my siblings and I slept in tents or beneath the stars. The murmur of adults speaking against the last embers of a fire and the crawl of the …