One of the best books I read in 2020, but I feel it still hasn't gotten its due. Billy Ray Belcourt is a stunning queer, indigenous poet, philosopher, and scholar. It's an earth-shattering poetic memoir with resistance and radical joy at its core. For those to "whom utopia is a rallying cry."

 

Publisher description:

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, love, and queerness.