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Save Your Prayers – Send Money in The Winnipeg Free Press

melanie brannagan frederiksen reviews Save Your Prayers – Send Money by Jónína Kirton in The Winnipeg Free Press. Kirton’s new hybrid work of poetry and prose is a work with its face turned to disability justice. Written from the perspective of a seventy-year-old Métis woman and recovering New Ager, Save Your Prayers – Send Money takes aim at the wellness industry.

From the article, brannagan frederiksen says “What emerges over the course of this collection, animated by the question of what healing might look like in relation to chronic conditions, is a web of ancestral and community belonging.” Read the full piece here.