Coexistence

A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter's love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroticism. A man just out of prison balances the uneasy weight of family and freedom, while a professor returns home to conduct research only to be haunted by the ghost of a nun.

The stories and voices in Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut story collection, Coexistence, are buoyed by philosophical undergirding, poetic demand, and the complex relationship between aesthetics and ethics. Belcourt pirouettes through the short-story form in his signature staccato voice, imagining a range of characters from all walks of native life. He is an expert in celebrating the ways indigenous peoples make total conquest impossible.

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia and the founder of oteh nikan, an online magazine of LGBTQ2S+ indigenous writing. He lives in Vancouver.

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publish Date: May 21, 2024
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.0 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781324075943
• BISAC Categories: Short Stories