Theres a lot of really good novels by Native authors but a lot of them have sex or heterosexual romance and I really just don’t enjoy reading that. Does anyone know of some good indigenous novels with either queer romance or no romance at all? thanks 🫶🏽
by Legal_Chest_2393
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Not a novel, but a poetry collection: Natalie Diaz’s “Postcolonial Love Poem” is amazing. She is a queer, Native woman. I haven’t read jt for a while, but from my memory she mostly explores her experiences as a Native woman, but does lightly touch on queerness at some points. Definitely no heteroromance though lol
Also, Billy Ray Belcourt’s works! He is a Native, gay man. I’ve only read “A History of my Brief Body” which is more memoir style essays, but is so so amazing. He also has poetry collections and I hear his fiction novel “A Minor Chorus” is great. I haven’t read it personally, but he’s such a great writer that I feel no problem recommending it anyway
How do you feel about fantasy? The Keys of Persephone by Kate Gray Glass is a sapphic romance, one FMc is an indigenous witch. No sex scenes.