{"product_id":"making-love-with-the-land-by-joshua-whitehead","title":"Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe boundary- and genre-bending non-fiction collection from the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads– winning author of \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, 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.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Love with the Land\u003c\/i\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 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 beunearthed and summoned into word.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJOSHUA WHITEHEAD\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Oji-Cree\/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit\/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003efull-metal indigiqueer\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). In 2016, he won the Governor General’sHistory Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eLove after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Specula­tive Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the Uni­versity of Calgary (Treaty 7). He lives in Calgary, Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booktique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46025254961212,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/4879\/8012\/files\/9780735278882_cfl.jpg?v=1787073498","url":"https:\/\/www.booktique.ca\/products\/making-love-with-the-land-by-joshua-whitehead","provider":"Booktique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}