View this post on Instagram A post shared by Auntie’s Bookstore (@auntiesbooks) —Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane made an Instagram reel of some favorite books by indigenous authors. Among the titles: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich White Magic by Elissa Washuta Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s by Tiffany Midge Red Paint by …
I loved this set of a dozen stories brought to life in Morgan Talty’s words. Each story is demonstrative of life as a Penobscot, in a Native community in Maine. One of my favorites is about a boy who opens a Pandora’s box kind of jar and lets out a curse that ruins his family. …
Set across the PNW, LaPointe combines memoir and creative non-fiction to weave the stories of her Coast Salish female ancestors into her own complex tale. Heart-wrenching, and unflinching, LaPointe depicts the severe mental and physical health problems and hardships caused by PTSD from sexual assault—an issue which disproportionally impacts Native/Indigenous women. In La Pointe’s journey …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. It is the last day of March, Women’s History Month. We thought we would finish up with a selection of amazing, bestselling Native American woman authors– including the Pacific Northwest’s …
Light up Peets Hill with the installation of illuminated teepees to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. The lodges honor the contributions of American Indians to our community, landscape, and culture, and will stand on the ancestral lands of the Bitterroot Salish, Pend d’Orielle, Kootenai, Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Chippewa Cree, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Dakota, and other …
Stephen Graham Jones is back with My Heart is a Chainsaw. Jones, who has been diligently writing amazing horror stories for the past decade, is really taking off these last few years. Last year’s release The Only Good Indians won the Ray Bradbury Prize, the Alex Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award (and it’s …
Elissa Washuta’s White Magic is a collection of amazing essays about loneliness, addiction, cultural devastation, and grief. Washuta, a member of the Cowlitz tribe, explores the persistent trauma of colonization on the native peoples of North America, as well as her own efforts to find her own place and identity in this modern world. Along the …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. We celebrate Native American and indigenous stories on this week’s list. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch An …
“You cannot drink poetry,” Diaz writes. In this second collection of her poems, she celebrates and longs for the physical body of a lover as well as the body of the earth—its water in particular. These are ecological, culturally rich, incredibly human poems, binding us to our planet with raw and intricate lyricism. –Carrie, Eagle …
On the livestreaming event celebrating the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Award Winners, an audience member asked the authors for book recommendations. Here are some of the books that came up, some literally pulled from stacks near the authors for show and tell: Entangled Life (recommended by Silvia Morena-Garcia) The Gilded Ones (recommended by Kim Johnson. …
