13 Best canada books like Letters in a Bruised Cosmos by Liz Howard

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Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

By: Liz Howard

4.09

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of…

If you liked the canada plot in Letters in a Bruised Cosmos by Liz Howard , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Islands of Decolonial Love

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more

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2. A Place Called No Homeland

By: Kai Cheng Thom

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monst… read more

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3. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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4. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • adult
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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6. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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7. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

By: Junauda Petrus

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story … read more

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"You got to be yourself or else you end up someone else you probably don’t like."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"Her eyes were laughing and unashamed, like they had only known yes her whole life."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"I hearing Queenie’s words: “Let the pain leave out of you with each breath. It want to be free too,"

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"And nothing in life prepares you to live, truly live… you alive until you ain’t, so live in any way you can."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

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8. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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9. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • indigenous
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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10. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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11. it was never going to be okay

By: jaye simpson

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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12. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • canada
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13. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • indigenous
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14. Frying Plantain

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more

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  • canada
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15. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • poetry
  • canada
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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16. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. People Change

By: Vivek Shraya

3.96

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • canada
"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."

-Vivek Shraya, People Change

"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."

-Vivek Shraya, People Change

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18. Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

By: Fariha Róisín

3.77

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In the powerful follow up to her critically acclaimed debut collection, poet and activist Fariha Ró… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Forgiveness is holding the multiplicity."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"The natural world meets me where humans cannot."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Herodotus knew to tell a story, you had to respect it first."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

"Nothing rings truer than blazing through the bright white streak of eucalyptus fire we decided to call life."

-Fariha Róisín, Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems

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19. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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  • adult
  • canada
  • indigenous
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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20. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

By: Liz Howard

4.09

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of… read more

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  • poetry
  • race
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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21. Each One a Furnace: Poems

By: Tolu Oloruntoba

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Junta of Happenstance, here is a brilliant new collection of poems—a burning… read more

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  • poetry

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