"I felt a lot of pressure. I feel like I'm representing so much more than myself in this competition. I'm representing communities. I'm Mohawk. I'm also queer...it's also representing two-spirit and Indigiqueer communities in this. So it's so much bigger than myself and I just feel so humbled and so honoured to have been a part of this and now to call
Jonny Appleseed the winner of Canada Reads."
The runner-up was
which tells the interwoven stories of three Nigerian women, Kambirinachi and her twin daughters Taiye and Kehinde, who are torn apart by a traumatic experience.
Jacobs won in a 3-2 vote on the final day.