Thinning Blood

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

This title has a release date of May 16, 2023. See below for more information.

Written by: Leah Myers

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Release Date

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity releases May 16, 2023

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May 16, 2023

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Release Date

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity released on May 16, 2023.

Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Synopsis

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions

A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history.

Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family’s totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven.

As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her “culture is being bleached out,” offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naive childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager.

Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman’s identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.

4 illustrations

Genre: Biographies, Cultural, Memoir, Nonfiction

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