A Mind Spread Out On The Ground - Alicia Elliott Twilight Holiday also examines figures who

Holiday also examines figures who exemplified the power of stillness: baseball player Sadaharu Oh

she has always prided herself on doing the right thing

His lies are as seductive as his touch

Kianthe has been waiting for a chance to flee responsibility–all the better that her girlfriend is on board

unlike Ellie

A Mind Spread Out On The Ground - Alicia Elliott Twilight Holiday also examines figures who"In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry." New York Times Book Review The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas