news | Tuesday July 14, 2026

Jenn Ashton and ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn in The Tyee

The Tyee has put out a list of local books to pick up for great summer reading. We’re thrilled to see two new Talonbooks titles in the article. The Tyee recommends checking out Growing My Way Home, a work of autofiction by award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author Jenn Ashton. Based on Ashton’s teenage journals, in Growing My Way Home we follow our narrator through abuse, her time as a young drug dealer and a teen parent through to becoming an established artist.

The Tyee also suggests picking up ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok by ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn. The winner of the 2026 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English, ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok offers a look into ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ nêhiyaw ways of being and some of the language philosophy behindᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin. These two books can’t be missed. Read the complete article in The Tyee here.