{"product_id":"thunder-song-isbn-9781640096943","title":"Thunder Song","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Blending beautiful family history with her own personal memories, LaPointe’s writing is a ballad against amnesia, and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope.\" —\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of the award-winning memoir \u003ci\u003eRed Paint\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnapologetically punk, the essays in \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world.\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Washington State Book Awards\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best Book of the Year\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2024\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Title by \u003ci\u003eMs., Elle, Nylon, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eBookshop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThunder Song \u003c\/i\u003eis masterful and wise, and it will not be forgotten.\" —Morgan Talty, \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e, LaPointe traverses both trauma and tender joyous moments with fearlessness and grace.\" —Dua Anjum, \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At its core, \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e is LaPointe's own gift of medicine to the world.\" —Libby Denkmann Noel Gasca, KUOW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether one reads \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e cover-to-cover or one-by-one as discrete essays, the overall impression is one of honesty, precise observations and love. Thunder Song is further evidence of a star on the rise, well worth following.\" —Christine Perkins, \u003ci\u003eCascadia Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blending beautiful family history with her own personal memories, LaPointe’s writing is a ballad against amnesia, and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope.\" —Lauren Puckett-Pope, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The collection is reminiscent of a mixtape, with essays as loud and splitting as a punk song.\" —\u003cbr\u003eSophia June, \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe offers readers this incandescent collection of essays reflecting on family, tradition, art and music, climate change, spirituality and more. Her way with words is powerful; her distinctive style is fresh, magnetic and compelling.\" —Karla Strand, \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"LaPointe points the reader toward a larger kind of love rooted in unconditional care and compassion in a uniquely Indigenous queer love story.\" —Shin Yu Pai, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like any good mixtape, \u003ci\u003eThunder Song \u003c\/i\u003eis bold, lyrical, compelling, and proud.\" —\u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe gives us glimpses into her life as an Indigenous woman in America in her brilliant new essay collection, \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e. She boldly proclaims her heritage, her queerness, and her punk-ness. I can’t wait for people to read this!\" —Ashley Kilcullen, The Bookshop, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a provocative and wonderfully crafted collection exploring cultural legacies, colonialism, and finding your own path forward.” —Susie Dumond, \u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays are firmly rooted in the collective history of the Coast Salish people as LaPointe offers earnest revelations of cheated land, the significance of persistence, and the radical act of love.\" —\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Incandescent . . . \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e [is] powerfully animated by the 'spirit songs' of LaPointe’s matrilineal line; her writing is both a celebration and continuation of the work of her foremothers, in a Native punk mode all her own . . . By transmitting the healing songs of her great-grandmother through her own creative work in prose and performance, LaPointe offers all readers a chance to acknowledge and be changed by Indigenous voices and values.\" —Catherine Hollis, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lyrical prose elevates LaPointe’s incisive and heartfelt personal reflections. The result is a beautifully rendered snapshot of contemporary American Indigenous life.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These passionate essays, adamant in their activist pleas, reflect hard-won wisdom, as well as the representative significance of the author’s experiences. Probing and poignant reflections on Indigenous America.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe’s essays in \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e are loud, bold, and startlingly majestic. None of Sasha’s examinations fail to find truth: page after page, the intersections of family, heritage, history, and music build to countless transcendental moments for the reader, which is not only the magic of this book but a clear testament to Sasha’s immense storytelling power. She is a major talent. \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful and wise, and it will not be forgotten.” ––Morgan Talty, National Bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Rez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe's essays are the songs that twine us together, the stories that teach us how to live, and the directions through the deep forest where our medicines grow. For everyone who keeps singing and telling and listening, \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e is a heart-balm and a gift.\" ––Elissa Washuta, author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e is testimony, prayer, song. It is an announcement—that a Two-Spirit woman has stepped into her power. It is living proof that loving oneself can be a radical act of decolonization. It is at once a protest against Indigenous erasure and a powerful reminder that Indigenous peoples have part of the answer to the burning question of how to get out of the horrible, planetary mess that we're in. But more than all this, \u003ci\u003eThunder Song\u003c\/i\u003e is the literary equivalent of plant medicine. In it, Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe gathers the stories and sacred herbs of her lived experiences (and her people’s) and makes a medicine of her own—to heal herself and, in turn, everyone else. An offering of rare beauty in this broken world.\" —Julian Aguon author of \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e and founder of Blue Ocean Law\u003cb\u003eSasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe\u003c\/b\u003e is a Coast Salish author from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRed Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a Pacific Northwest Book Award, the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction\/Memoir, and an NPR Best Book of the Year, and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eRose Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e. She received a double MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. 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