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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Paperback • 2020 • English

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By Alicia Elliott

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About the book

"In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry." —New York Times Book Review The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experie...Show more

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ISBN

9781612198668

Publisher

Melville House

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Format

Paperback

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