“You get so involved in the discussion,” she said, “I forget-oh, wait-I have to vote? Can we continue this picking apart, unpacking, revealing?” The discussion, she said, “has been real passionate and real honest.”
Having praised Polk’s bravery as an author in writing about “a young woman with her own doubts, working her way to her own self-esteem,” she then talked about the process of the show. One of the points Rosey Edeh made in the final show on March 11, having championed CL Polk’s The Midnight Bargain (Erewhon Books, 2020), is that the immersion in the defenders’ conversation becomes its own attraction in the show. The author Neil Gaiman, who had a hand in casting the book’s defender, Jacobs, as Sam Black Crow in the television adaptation of his American Gods. “I think the book is timely and needed for Canadian readers to see what it means for Indigenous peoples to be living under the weight of ongoing settler colonialism, the ways in which we have been harmed, injured profoundly, but also the ways in which we are powerful beyond measure and hold the highest registers of love for our communities, ourselves and for this land we call Turtle Island.” I’m holding this as a legacy and a fire to keep burning for all Indigenous folks across Turtle Island, and I dedicate it to all missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people and their families. The book’s author, Whitehead, is quoted on the news of the win, saying, “This means the world to me. But it’s so much bigger than myself and I feel so humbled and so honored to have been a part of this.” “I felt a lot of pressure representing Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer communities,” Jacobs says. On the Canada Reads show, Jonny Appleseed was successfully defended by filmmaker and actor Devery Jacobs, a Mohawk, herself, keeping the title on the table as four other books were thrown “off the island,” if you will during the week’s four broadcasts.
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