Joshua whitehead author6/20/2023 ![]() It’s raw, occasionally violent, with ample blood, vomit and other bodily fluids. ![]() The book is framed around Jonny’s return home for his stepfather’s funeral, weaving together coming-of-age stories of family and kinship, love and lust. Jonny Appleseed follows the titular character, a two-spirit Indigiqueer young man who leaves the rez for Winnipeg where he ekes out a living as a webcam boy or “NDN glitter princess” with an arsenal of costumes and identities. When Whitehead - an Oji-Cree, two-spirit storyteller from the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba - was 18, he wanted to write a novel about a group of Indigenous teens that would capture the reality of youth culture in Manitoba: a Go Ask Alice or The Outsiders for a new generation.Īlthough his idea didn’t materialize, the character of Jonny Appleseed did emerge first in a short story, then in a novella, and now as the star of Whitehead’s debut novel published by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press. ![]() Jonny Appleseed has been travelling with Joshua Whitehead for years. ![]()
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