![]() ![]() ![]() In your own words, how would you describe Tookie? And so that's the thing that Tookie finds difficult. What happens is she decides to find every clue she can to prove her indigeneity, and then operate as though she always was this person. ![]() Because it includes love, but also a certain pathology. I've been thinking about this, and I thought, "What would you call a person who is like this? " And I came up with a word that has some Latin in it, an Indigenophilopath. She's someone who is not Native, but has a kind of desperation to be Indigenous. I mean, she is what people term a wannabe. Our most-annoying-favorite-customer comes partly because she loves books, but also because she is an imbiber of all things Indigenous. ![]() This is a bookstore with an emphasis on Native American literature, politics, history, memoir, everything, right? Also jewelry and beautiful baskets, all the things that I wanted to have there in order to make it a focus for people who came to learn more, or for Native people, especially, to find favorite writers. The bookstore in The Sentence is haunted by a woman who you describe as their "most annoying customer." What about her is so annoying to the employees of the store? ![]()
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