Finalist, 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards On the Globe and Mail 's Top 100 Books list

In the face of colonialism, Indigenous peoples must continually create a “home” and a sense of belonging. For some of us, these are only glimpses, fleeting moments. Sometimes, there are none. only fragments.

Noopiming means “in the forest” in Anishinaabemowin. A constellation of characters make their way, reweaving the relationship with nature, the living, and each other, in the urban jungle, where everything is owned, packaged, and consumed. Rooted in Anishinaabe storytelling where fixed genres do not exist and space is left for transformation and movement, Noopiming: Remedy for Healing Whiteness is an act of decolonization, degentrification, and resistance to colonial myths.

A writer, professor, and musician, and a member of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg community, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is one of the leading figures in the Indigenous resurgence movement in Canada. She has published two stories with Mémoire d'encrier: Cartographie de l'amour décolonial (2018) and On se perd toujours par accident (2019). "An incredible constellation of characters, giving us the perspectives of elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, weaving together past, present, and future. That is the masterful beauty of this novel." The Globe and Mail "Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is the historian of the future we so desperately needed." Billy-Ray Belcourt