As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. We need more voices like Toni Jensen's, more books like Carry."-Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence.įinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Goop Book Club Pick "Essential.
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