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Really enjoyed this memoir by a #NativeAmerican woman that I read with #SheSaid a few months ago. #NovemberNarrative @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This book covers so many tough topics, substance abuse and the generational trauma & physical abuse buried behind that. All must be unburied and cleansed on the hard road of recovery, yet it is somehow still so compelling it‘s hard to put down. Knott manages to be open and vulnerable, while also being direct and tough. I‘m very glad she found the way and the will to write this, and that I had the good luck to stumble onto a review and read it.

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I know some of you all are behind schedule. But I loved this.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Hello #SheSaid.

I‘m behind myself this week, away on an unexpected vacation! So carry on the good discussion, and I‘ll catch up and join in later this week when we get a rainy afternoon ;~)

This was a difficult read. Not only because the trauma recounted was so repeated and unrelenting, but also because the amorphous writing structure that only coalesces at the end perfectly encapsulates her experience, so as the reader you also experience the echoes of her journey with startling immediacy. This is a brave, unflinching book. Thank you to whoever chose it #shesaid

An intense read but an important one, Knott takes us on a nonlinear journey through her struggles to get sober and her history that shapes why she struggles. The trauma she endured, the systemic failures, the hopelessness of addiction - man, it was tough. But the end, when she starts to work it all out and discover her worth, made it all worthwhile. #SheSaid

Hello #SheSaid How are you all doing today?

This essay had a different feel to me compared to the one in part 1… I still found it a page turning read though.

How did you feel about it? How‘s the book progressing for you?

Hello #SheSaid! Happy weekend to you all!

I‘m not sure how everyone else is doing, but there is something about the way she writes this that I just fall into. It should all be a bit much, lots of trigger worthy events & references, but somehow I just get sucked in and keep flipping the pages. I‘m very curious about the next section, does that style continue. And I have to say that i think she‘s a bit brave to write out hitting bottom and why.

Hello #SheSaid!
Some Trigger Warnings for this one, but I have to say that I had a hard time putting this one down at the end of our section… I wanted to just keep reading, which is always a good sign.

How did everyone else make out with the beginning of this new book this week?

Next up for September #SheSaid!

Put in your library holds and request your interlibrary loans!

Helen Knott says she was an adult before she learned that not every Indigenous girl experiences sexual violence. She says this memoir is especially aimed at women like her who have struggled with addiction as a way of coping with trauma. It‘s a story not only of survival but of triumph & accomplishment. Knott is of Dane-Zaa, Nehiyaw, Métis & European descent & grew up in northern BC. She reads her own #audiobook. #Canadian #Indigenous

I spent most of yesterday sewing myself some funky trousers (made from a thrift store duvet cover). #audiocrafting

This book is very heavy but I like it hope to finish by the end of this weekend!

Wow! Helen Knott‘s memoir delivers a swift punch to the gut but makes it so you can‘t look away and can‘t help but root for Helen on her journey to sobriety. TWs for: rape, child molestation, self harm, alcohol and drug abuse, mention of suicide, mention of residential schools, racism. Such a moving, powerful and must read. #BookSpinBingo

So cool! I have never read her book but seeing this (and the follow up posts she made) on Twitter makes me love this author!

WOW. This memoir was incredible. Helen is such a beautiful writer and her story is powerful. Not a book that I will forgot.

1. In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
2. Harry Potter ⚡️
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

#WeekendReads @rachelsbrittain

Holy shit this one is bowling me over.

This Canadian Indigenous poet, states “I did not write this book so that people can learn how to humanize Indigenous women and gain context for the violence that seems to fill our lives.” She wrote this for Indigenous women. It‘s a powerful memoir of sexual violence, addiction and generational grief, self-sabotage, loss of culture, and ultimately her healing and sobriety. “You are worthy of all that is good. You are worth a thousand horses.” 🔽