{"product_id":"9780735278882","title":"Making Love with the Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe boundary- and genre-bending non-fiction collection from the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads– winning author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The land and its elements are my aunties calling me home, into that centre point which is a nowhere, by which I mean a place that English has no words for, is an everywhere, is a bingo hall, is a fourth plane, is an ocean.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Love with the Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a startling, challenging, uncompromising look at what it means to live as an Indigenous person “in the rupture” between identities. In these ten unique, heart-piercing non-fiction pieces, award-winning writer Joshua Whitehead illuminates the com­plex moment we’re living through now, in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are navigating new and old ideas about “the land.” He asks: What is our relationship and responsi­bility towards it? And how has the land shaped ideas, histories, words, our very bodies?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntellectually thrilling and emotionally captivat­ing, this book is a love song for the world—and for the library of stories to be found where body meets land, waiting to be unearthed and summoned into word.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joshua Whitehaed","offers":[{"title":"Knopf | Paperback | 2024-02-13","offer_id":43921431429375,"sku":"9780735278882","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_28.jpg?v=1735327681","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780735278882","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}