History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

earliest edition we have, 2020 University of Queensland Press, 2021

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy...

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History of My Brief Body edition · 2021 · Random House, Incorporated · 9780735237803
History of My Brief Body edition · 2021 · University of Queensland Press · 9780702265198
History of My Brief Body edition · 2021 · University of Queensland Press · 9780702265181
History of My Brief Body edition · 2020 · Two Dollar Radio · 142 pages · 9781937512934
A History of My Brief Body hardcover · 2020 · Hamish Hamilton · 192 pages · 9780735237780

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