RED PAINT The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

Sasha LaPointe is an Indigenous artist--a descendant of the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribes--as well as a poet and now an author/narrator. She voices her coming-of-age memoir in soft, melodic tones while recounting a nomadic childhood full of identity conflict. LaPointe is an engaging storyteller who shares her various journeys, which range from expanding her grandmother's work to preserve her native language to discovering a love of punk music. Eventually, LaPointe celebrates being able to blend the two while living in the Pacific Northwest. This is a unique memoir, told in warm, intimate tones that will have listeners rooting all the harder for a young woman to find her place in the world. M.R. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2022]