The Princess Transformed Blog

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Women of the River

Here’s a link to my research narrative concerning my native roots and the novel by Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries. https://thewomenoftheriver.wordpress.com/

Cowboys and Indians: Mailhot and the Native Spirit

Terese Marie Mailhot’s brilliant debut novel manages to not only awaken spirits long forgotten, but also to exploit every derogatory way that North American white culture thinks of Native indigenous peoples. Beginning with a state of the “Indian Condition” and emphasizing the intergenerational trauma and never-ending pain of her people, she is deliberate and clever […]

Trigger Warning: This Book’s About Your Life

“This was different. This felt like real life. It can happen to a girl. She can be entirely alone on a Sunday morning and then a teacher can say her name.” Jo Hadley, p. 59 In an interview with Just the Right Book Podcast, Kate Walbert said that she liked to, “write into silences.” She […]

Heart Beat Bill Passed in Ohio

Home Fire

“It’s in the Quran. La yukallifullahu nafsan ilia wus-ahaa. Allah does not burden a soul with more than it can bear.” Isma, p. 49 Home Fire is the newest novel by Kamila Shamsie, a self-identifying Muslim and British citizen. The sometimes-lyrical text covers an ambitious amount of territory from the seduction and recruitment of young […]

R.O. Kwon: the Incendiaries

“I’ll ask you what I’ve asked myself, late at night, as I wait upon His spirit: if the likes of you and I won’t be radical for God, who will?” John Leal according to Will Kendall, The Incendiaries, p. 136 Growing up in a Baptist household, my white, lower class parents told me a common […]