Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies is an experimental novel blending Nishnaabeg storytelling traditions with contemporary narrative, following Akiwenzii and Ninaatig through interconnected stories spanning time and space. Through poetic language and non-linear structure, Simpson creates a work that refuses colonial narrative forms while exploring love, land, and Indigenous futurity. The novel becomes both literary innovation and political act, proving that Indigenous storytelling doesn't need to follow Western conventions and that some books create entirely new forms.

WHY WE PICKED IT: Because Simpson refuses to make her storytelling accessible to colonial expectations, creating something entirely her own. This novel reminds us that Indigenous literature is innovating narrative form, that Nishnaabeg storytelling has its own logic, and that decolonizing literature means changing how stories are told.

DETAILS: • Author: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press • Format: Paperback • Publication Date: May 31, 2022 • ISBN: 9781517911263 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days