Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

The boundary- and genre-bending non-fiction collection from the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads– winning author of Jonny Appleseed.

“The land and its elements are my aunties calling me home, intothat 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.”

Making Love with the Land 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 Whiteheadilluminates 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?

Intellectually 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 beunearthed and summoned into word.

About the Author

JOSHUA WHITEHEAD is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel Jonny Appleseed (2018), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and won Canada Reads and a Lambda Literary Award; and the poetry col­lection full-metal indigiqueer (2017). In 2016, he won the Governor General’sHistory Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge. He is also the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Specula­tive Fiction. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the Uni­versity of Calgary (Treaty 7). He lives in Calgary, Alberta.