A Generous Spirit, Lee Maracle
A Generous Spirit, Lee Maracle
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A Generous Spirit
Selected Work by Beth Brant

Author: Lee Maracle, Deborah Miranda

Narrator: Michelle Thrush

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 12/15/2020

Synopsis

A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist, and activist. During her life, Brant’s work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represent continued strength, growth, and connection in the face of deep suffering. A Generous Spirit is Brant’s portrait of survival and empathy at the intersection of Native American and lesbian experience. Edited by noted Native poet and scholar Janice Gould, A Generous Spirit recounts and enacts the continuance of her people and her sisters with distinct, organic voices and Brant’s characteristic warmth. Her work is a simultaneous cry of grief and celebration of human compassion and connection in its shared experience. Through storytelling, her characters wrest their own voices from years of silence and find communion with other souls.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sonja

This is a great book. It is rare to find a book by a Native American lesbian. The stories. Especially A Long Story and Turtle were wonderful and brought me to tears. The essays are really worth reading because we get to the concerns of a lesbian Indian. Her discussion of racism and exclusion of Nati......more

Goodreads review by Charlott

4,5 I am so thankful that Lambda Literary shortlisted "A Generous Spirit. Selected Work by Beth Brant" for Lesbian Fiction this year because that made me pick up the book. I had known of Mohawk lesbian writer Beth Brant before but had not read texts by her, I think. This collection - edited by Janic G......more

Goodreads review by Liz

Getting an early start to IndigAThon, and I'm glad I started with this book! Beth Brant's work is really interesting, and if anything, I wanted more context for her and for her work. It's clear that she was publishing at a time when marginalized writers were only getting their work out there through......more

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