A review by alybcan
Nishga by Jordan Abel

5.0

The author quotes Samantha Neck's essay Being A Witness: "When you witness someone’s story … you are carrying a part of that person with you now. You have entered a very specific and powerful relationship that exists between the storyteller and the witness.” I keep thinking about this and how our role as storytellers and also as witnesses can be combined or separate, but continue to be linked beyond the moments that the story is shared.

This book discusses the intergenerational trauma from the Residential Schools system, and the author's use of mixed media allowed me to hear his story and understand this trauma in a different way.