Burn Your Pity and Bury Your Judgement: Reading Helen Knott’s IN MY OWN MOCCASINS
5 min readDec 8, 2020
What does it mean to read and write about a book that wasn’t written for you?
This is the question on my mind as I read and write about Helen Knott’s In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (2019).
A woman of Dane Zaa, Cree, Métis and mixed European descent from northern British Columbia, Knott…