Memoir Series: Darrel McLeod

Alphabet City at City of Asylum continues its Memoir Reading Series with Darrel McLeod, a Cree author from the treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. McLeod will discuss his debut, award-winning memoir Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age. Titled after a Cree term meaning “it’s a wonder,” the book contains a series of vignettes in which McLeod explores his heritage and various traumas growing up in an abusive household and grappling with his sexual identity. The event will be moderated by poet Steffan Triplett.