Making Love with the Land
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
Much-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.
“Thrillingly cerebral. . . . Delivered with virtuoso aplomb.” —The New York Times
In the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, confession). Making Love with the Land is a startling, heartwrenching look at what it means to live as a queer Indigenous person "in the rupture" between identities. In sharp, surprising, unique pieces—a number of which have already won awards—Whitehead illuminates this particular moment, in which both 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 our ideas, our histories, our very bodies?
Here is an intellectually thrilling, emotionally captivating love song—a powerful revelation about the library of stories land and body hold together, waiting to be unearthed and summoned into word.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Novelist Joshua Whitehead makes his insightful nonfiction debut with this stunning collection of writing. Whitehead explores everything here, from the horrors of residential schools and Indigenous identity to queerness and body dysmorphia to the musical works of Brandi Carlisle and Madonna. The Canadian author and poet flows from point to point, letting his thoughts cascade and splash. And what you start to realize as you journey through the book is that Whitehead’s refusal to follow a single format is itself a rebellion against colonialism, since, as he puts it, “Indigenous storytelling deploys all genres and no genres simultaneously.” The power and lyricism of this unclassifiable book is nothing short of game-changing.