A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott is an eclectic memoir about writing, family life, and mental health that centres around the Mohawk phrase for depression, which can be translated into English as “a mind spread out on the ground”. Written with love, this book is made up of references to tv shows, comic books, and fairytales, which are all used to contextualize Elliott’s own experience as a white and Haudenosaunee mixed race kid growing up between the States and Canada.
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