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Making art out of pain

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Angie Elita Newell does not write easy books.

Her novel, All I See Is Violence, is not a fantasy escape, which she joked about after finding herself surrounded by “sexy fairy” books at BookCon. It is a historical novel built from trauma, archival research, Indigenous memory, and the long shadow of state violence.

Newell is a member of the Liidlii Kue Nation, part of the Dene linguistic group.…