Rehearsals for living

ISBN: 9781039000650
Physical Description: vii, 328 pages ; 21 cm regular print print
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 2 / 5.0

Maynard, Robyn (author.). Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake 1971- (author.).

Summary: When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters--a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. These letters soon grew into a powerful exchange about where we go from here. Rehearsals for Living is a captivating and visionary work--part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment, Maynard and Simpson create something new: an urgent demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up other ways of ordering earthly life.