An Evening with David Treuer (The Savage Mind: An Indigenous Legacy)
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Join us for an evening with New York Times bestselling author David Treuer in support of his new book, The Savage Mind: An Indigenous Legacy (McClelland & Stewart), a groundbreaking and intimate reckoning with Turtle Island's history, the violence of the frontier, and finding hope in the dark.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771035029/david-treuer/the-savage-mind
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/IDRTMQgTnfo
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Growing up on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota, the son of a Holocaust survivor and the first American Indigenous woman judge in the country, Treuer inherited two often opposing views of America. Through a seamless blend of memoir, history, and reportage, Treuer leverages this unique dual perspective to offer an examination of North America's—and its citizens’—continuing acts of violence throughout history aimed at diminishing and controlling our freedom and autonomy.
A short work of gorgeous prose and movingly intimate storytelling, The Savage Mind does not hazard to offer an easy diagnosis of the violence and grief that is core to who we are as nations, nor does Treuer offer unrealistic solutions. Yet he does choose to embrace a hopeful view of Turtle Island, one that is all the more critical in a moment when it may feel very challenging to do so.
David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His book, the New York Times bestseller The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, was a finalist for both the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of four novels and two other books of nonfiction, as well as essays and stories that have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Slate, among others. Treuer divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is also an editor at large at Pantheon Books, where his focus is on Native writers and emerging voices.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780771035029/david-treuer/the-savage-mind
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/IDRTMQgTnfo
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Growing up on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota, the son of a Holocaust survivor and the first American Indigenous woman judge in the country, Treuer inherited two often opposing views of America. Through a seamless blend of memoir, history, and reportage, Treuer leverages this unique dual perspective to offer an examination of North America's—and its citizens’—continuing acts of violence throughout history aimed at diminishing and controlling our freedom and autonomy.
A short work of gorgeous prose and movingly intimate storytelling, The Savage Mind does not hazard to offer an easy diagnosis of the violence and grief that is core to who we are as nations, nor does Treuer offer unrealistic solutions. Yet he does choose to embrace a hopeful view of Turtle Island, one that is all the more critical in a moment when it may feel very challenging to do so.
David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His book, the New York Times bestseller The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, was a finalist for both the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of four novels and two other books of nonfiction, as well as essays and stories that have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Slate, among others. Treuer divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is also an editor at large at Pantheon Books, where his focus is on Native writers and emerging voices.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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