Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief stories and truth-telling

and truth-telling

and confirms his reputation as one of the most talented and original writers of his generation

Joshua Whitehead unravels the coded "I" to trace the formation of a colonized self and reclaim representations of Indigenous texts

no longer speaking Ojibwe—and no longer able to communicate with her siblings

and jets across the country and across the ocean to tell stories

Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief stories and truth-tellingA beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's poem "Washing My Mother's Body," which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable. As I wash my mother's face, I tell her how beautiful she is, how brave, how her beauty and bravery live on in her grandchildren. Her face is relaxed, peaceful. Her earth memory body has not left yet, but when I see her the next day, embalmed and in the casket in the funeral home, it will be