With Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed, Indigiqueer storytelling has a spotlight at Canada Reads Whitehead's powerful debut novel is one of the books on this year's nearly all-LGBTQ shortlist. Social Sharing Whitehead's powerful debut novel is one of the books on this year's nearly all-LGBTQ shortlist Posted: Jan 14, 2021 11:30 AM ET | Last Updated: January 14 Joshua Whitehead.(Tenille Campbell) Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib, Canada Reads has continued to prove just how much queer storytelling is leading the field of contemporary Canadian literature. Four of the five books selected this year were written by LGBTQ authors — including Joshua Whitehead's transcendent and powerful debut novel