{"product_id":"a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground-paperback","title":"A Mind Spread Out on the Ground - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlicia Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 experienced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Elliott's\u003c\/b\u003e writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2018\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Born in Buffalo, NY and raised between there and Ohio, she now lives in Brantford, Ontario with her husband and child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397416861874,"sku":"9781612198668","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/368979806780c316a8aecde84f5273c6.webp?v=1778030607","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}