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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Name: Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
Brand: Broadleaf Books
SKU: 9781506499123
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Contributors:

Patty Krawec, Omar El Akkad (Foreword by)

Publisher:

Broadleaf Books

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

Indigenous Studies, Indigenous, Books & Reading

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Release Date:

9/16/2025

ISBN 13:

9781506499123

Weight:

1.03 lbs

Size:

8.58 x 5.91 x 0.79 inches

Pages:

231

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In this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by marginalized people describe and invite us to inhabit?

When a friend asked what books could help them understand Indigenous lives, Patty Krawec, author of Becoming Kin, gave them a list. This list became a book club and then a podcast about a year of Indigenous reading, and then this book. The writers in Bad Indians Book Club refuse to let dominant stories displace their own and resist the way wemitigoozhiwag--European settlers--craft the prevailing narrative and decide who they are.

In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine works about history, science, and gender as well as fiction, all written from the perspective of ""Bad Indians""--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds. Interlacing chapters with short stories about Deer Woman, who is on her own journey to decide who she is, Krawec leads us into a place of wisdom and medicine where the stories of marginalized writers help us imagine other ways of seeing the world. As Krawec did for her friend, she recommends a list of books to fill in the gaps on our own bookshelves and in our understanding.

Becoming Kin, which novelist Omar El Akkad called a ""searing spear of light,"" led readers to talk back to the histories they had received. Now, in Bad Indians Book Club comes a potent challenge to all the stories settler colonialism tells--stories that erase and appropriate, deny and deflect. Following Deer Woman, who is shaped by the profuse artistry of Krawec, we enter the multiple worlds Indigenous and other subaltern stories create. Together we venture to the edges of worlds waiting to be born.

About the Author
El Akkad, Omar: -

Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist whose books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a two-time winner of both the Oregon Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

Krawec, Patty: -

Patty Krawec (Anishinaabe Ukrainian) is author of Becoming Kin and Bad Indians Book Club and cofounder of the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation. An activist and former social worker, she belongs to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Krawec has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and cohosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast.

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