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A Mind Spread out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

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A Mind Spread out on the Ground

by Alicia Elliott

Narrator Kyla Garcia

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Length 7 hours 16 minutes

Language English

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The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ""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 the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced.

Elliott'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.

A 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.

Biography & Memoir Nonfiction Social Science

Alicia Elliott is an award-winning Haudenosaunee writer who has had work published in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Vice, and The Best American Short Stories 2018, among others. She has been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised between there and Ohio, she now lives with her husband and child in Brantford, Ontario.

Kyla García is an actress and audiobook narrator who has earned seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for her work. Her favorite storytelling moments include being a company member of Native Voices at the Autry, starring in the World Premiere of Sovereignty at Arena Stage, and creating the critically acclaimed one-woman show The Mermaid Who Learned How to Fly. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.