Noopiming : The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Novel

Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for ‘in the bush.’ In it, Simpson and a cast of seven – Akiwenzii, the old man; Ninaatig, the maple tree; Mindimooyenh, the old woman; Sabe, the giant; Adik, the caribou; and Asin and Lucy, younger humans – turn the tables on colonial myth-making, exposing the unnatural strangeness at the heart of settler-capitalism. With warm humour and canny observation, The Cure for White Ladies breaks open the self to a world still alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits.