My first time reading Billy-Ray Belcourt and I fell in love with his writing. These essays feel so personal, honest, heartbreaking, strong, sad, tense, beautiful, and thoughtful. There were many of the essays and poems were I felt like maybe I was not smart enough for. I felt like I needed to go do more research read from more voices, check out the literature he mentions and recommends and then come back to read what he has written. I look forward to doing this. I annotated through it, I read it slowly, I read a sentence and cried, I read this and knew I'd be rereading it many times and recommending it to people. I also went and watched some interviews of Belcourt, it was great hearing him speak or read some of his work.