The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle Episode

Book Interrupted is back for season 5!  We start the season with Kim’s book pick “The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island” by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon.The women discuss the book and all agree its completely unique and don’t know how to describe it to others.  They discuss the pros and cons of the audio book vs the physical book. There is a lot to unfold in this book from Cree, culture, history, gender, shame, greed, art, sex, more sex and even more sex.

Discussion Points: 

• Kent Monkman’s Art
• Audio book verses physical book
• Learning Cree
• Real History
• Explaining the book to others
• LGTBQ+ or indigenous culture
• Gender, sex and settler shame
• Having more then you need
• The Hunger Games and Twilight -would it be an episode without these?
• Truth and reconciliation commitment
• Do they recommend the book 

Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted: 

Book Interrupted

Book Interrupted YouTube Channel

Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group

The Memoir of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kent Monkman’s Art

Trading Spaces Movie

Undercover Boss

The Hunger Games

Twilight

Vox Books