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Book Group - "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies"
Start Nov 5, every Thursday, Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Location: Lubec Memorial Library, 55 Water St., Lubec
The Lubec Memorial Library will host one more selection in its addiction book group series exploring the cultural and historical context of addiction, substance use, and treatment with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies. University of Minnesota Press. 2020.
"In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman, their conscience; Sabe, a gentle giant, their marrow; Adik, the caribou, their nervous system; and Asin and Lucy, the humans who represent their eyes, ears, and brain.
The novel's characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, and Fjällräven Kånken backpacks. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits—and the daily work of healing."
The first meeting will take place Thursday, November 5, from 5:30 — 6:30 pm. Subsequent meetings will occur weekly on Thursdays or at the discretion of the assembled group.
Contact the Lubec Library in person, by email at contact@lubeclibrary.org, or call (207) 733-2491 to obtain a copy of the book made available through the generous support of Maine Humanities Council.
More information about the book can be found at https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517911263/noopiming/.
Further inquiries can be directed to Amy Zipperer at amy.a.zipperer@gmail.com.
For more information:
Lubec Memorial Library – Lubec, Maine
207-733-2491