6/30/2023 0 Comments Joshua whitehead jonny appleseedJonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead touched me deeply in my own personal life, and also the character Jonny has helped guide me through this process. "I feel so honoured to have defended this book in the first place. It also won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction. Jonny Appleseed, Whitehead's debut novel, is the first book by an Indigenous author to win Canada Reads. The book was previously on the longlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Jacobs successfully presented her case about why the 2018 novel Jonny Appleseed - a coming-of-age story about a two-spirit person named Jonny trying to put his life back together following the death of his stepfather - best fits the Canada Reads 2021 theme as the "one book to transport us." In a gripping finale, the book she championed, novel Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, survived the final elimination vote on March 11, 2021. And then there was one: actor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs has won Canada Reads 2021.
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