Polk, championed by Olympian and broadcaster Rosey Edeh Lee (which won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction in November), championed by singer-songwriter Scott Helman, who happened to learn live on air that he had been nominated for a 2021 Juno Award for the Music Video of the Year The other books that Whitehead’s novel competed against were (in order of elimination): Jonny Appleseed previously won the Lambda Literary Award for gay fiction, was 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. Jonny Appleseed follows a two-spirit Indigiqueer man who faces his past when he returns home to his reserve for his stepfather’s funeral. I think the book is timely and needed for Canadian readers to see what it means for Indigenous peoples to be living under the weight of ongoing settler colonialism, the ways in which we have been harmed, injured profoundly, but also the ways in which we are powerful beyond measure and hold the highest registers of love for our communities, ourselves, and for this land we call Turtle Island.” “I’m holding this as a legacy and a fire to keep burning for all Indigenous folks across Turtle Island and I dedicate it to all missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirited people and their families. “This means the world to me,” Whitehead said. Whitehead is two-spirit and a Oji-nêhiyaw Indigiqueer scholar from Peguis First Nation who conveys the unique experiences of young queer Indigenous people. I'm also queer. But It's so much bigger than myself and I just feel so humbled and so honored to have been a part of this.” “I felt a lot of pressure representing two-spirit and Indigiqueer communities,” she said. Here is Jacobs making her emotional final argument for the book: Mohawk filmmaker and actor Devery Jacobs defended and presented a successful case for Jonny Appleseed, published by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press, which particularly resonated on a personal level for her. Host Ali Hassan moderated the debate between five celebrity panelists who advocated for their chosen Canadian books, based on the theme of One Book to Transport Us.Įach day of the competition saw the panelists eliminate one of five books chosen as finalists. One book has been crowned the 2021 champion of CBC’s annual book debate.Īfter four days of discussion and debate-as well as laughter and tears-in Toronto from March 8 to 11, Joshua Whitehead’s debut novel Jonny Appleseed was named the top book for Canadians to read.
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