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Aguon, Julian, author.

No country for eight-spot butterflies : a lyric essay / Julian Aguon ; introduction by Arundhati Roy.

First edition.

New York : Astra House, 2022.

108 pages : photographs ; 19 cm

"No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples -- his own and others."-- Provided by publisher.

Aguon, Julian.

Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Guam -- Biography.

Civil rights lawyers -- Guam -- Biography.

Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Guam -- Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions.

Social justice.

Environmental justice.

Essays.

Autobiographies.

Roy, Arundhati, introduction.

No country for eight spot butterflies

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / by Arundhati Roy -- The properties of perpetual light -- Go with the moon -- No country for eight-spot butterflies -- My mother's bamboo bracelets : a handful of lessons on saving the world -- A handful of lessons on saving the world -- Sherman Alexie looked me dead in the eye once -- More right -- Birthday cakes mean birthdays -- Yugu means yoke -- A crowbar and a conch shell -- The gift Anne gave me -- Nirmal Hriday -- Mugo' -- The ocean within -- We have no need for scientists/59 we reach for you -- Reflections while driving -- Nikki and me -- Onion and garlic -- Fighting words -- Yeye tere -- Our father -- Gaosåli -- Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura.

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