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{"id":6813788143675,"title":"river woman special hardcover edition","handle":"river-woman-special-hardcover-edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-23T13:02:34-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-23T09:17:54-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Environmentalism","Adult Poetry","Adult Special Edition","By (author) Vermette Katherena","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2018-09-25"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40205700956219,"title":"hardcover special edition","option1":"hardcover special edition","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487003487","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"river woman special hardcover edition - hardcover special edition","public_title":"hardcover special edition","options":["hardcover special edition"],"price":3500,"weight":140,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487003487","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_aeb3801a-3b53-4184-a860-822a91cbf3b5.jpg?v=1717905095"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_aeb3801a-3b53-4184-a860-822a91cbf3b5.jpg?v=1717905095","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24629796339771,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3341,"width":2673,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_aeb3801a-3b53-4184-a860-822a91cbf3b5.jpg?v=1717905095"},"aspect_ratio":0.8,"height":3341,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_aeb3801a-3b53-4184-a860-822a91cbf3b5.jpg?v=1717905095","width":2673}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what feels like an eternal present, documenting moments of clarity that lift the speaker (and reader) out of the illusion of linear experience. This is what we mean when we describe a work of art as being timeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the river they speak to, these poems return again and again to the same source in search of new ways to reconstruct what has been lost. Vermette suggests that it’s through language and the body ― particularly through language as it lives inside the body ― that a fragmented self might resurface as once again whole. This idea of breaking apart and coming back together is woven throughout the collection as the speaker contemplates the ongoing negotiation between the city, the land, and the water, and as she finds herself falling into trust with the ones she loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVermette honours the river as a woman ― her destructive power and beauty, her endurance, and her stories. These poems sing from a place where “words \/ transcend ceremony \/ into everyday” and “nothing \/ is inanimate.”\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e","BISACSubjectLiteral_0":"POETRY \/ Native American","BISACSubjectLiteral_1":"POETRY \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ Nature","BISACSubjectLiteral_2":"POETRY \/ Canadian \/ General","BISACSubject_0":"POE015000","BISACSubject_1":"POE023030","BISACSubject_2":"POE011000","ContributorBio_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKATHERENA VERMETTE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/em\u003e (The Muses Company), won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her NFB short documentary, \u003cem\u003ethis river\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Coup de Coeur at the Montreal First Peoples Festival and a Canadian Screen Award. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e, is the winner of three Manitoba Book Awards and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Canada Reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Vermette, Katherena (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGovernor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eriver woman\u003c\/i\u003e, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. 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river woman special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Katherena Vermette's poetry collection river woman is limited to 50 copies.
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{"id":7168131465275,"title":"Scientific Marvel","handle":"scientific-marvel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-07-27T14:16:06-04:00","created_at":"2023-07-27T14:05:58-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","Adult Poetry","By (author) Undi Chimwemwe","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2024-04-02"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":2199,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41382944407611,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012250","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Scientific Marvel - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2199,"weight":168,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012250","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41386271277115,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012281","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Scientific Marvel - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012281","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24263880835131,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884"},"aspect_ratio":0.75,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/9781487012250.jpg?v=1709572884","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487003463","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487011154","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487011826","BASICMainSubject":"POE011000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"POETRY \/ Canadian","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHIMWEMWE UNDI\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, editor, and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eBrick\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBorder Crossings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBBC World\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. 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She was the recipient of the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards, and she is the Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Undi, Chimwemwe (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west. Taking its title from a beauty school in downtown Winnipeg that closed in 2017 after nearly 100 years of operation, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e approaches the prairies from the point of view of a person who is often erased from the prairies’ idea of itself. “I mean my country the way \/ my country means my country \/ and what else is there to say? \/ I am bad and brown \/ and trying. Nothing here \/ belongs to me or could \/ or ever will.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487012250","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487012250\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","NumberOfPages":"96","OtherText_Accolades_0":"\u003cp\u003eBound together and each piece so very much its own, this collection marvels from masterful found poems to sprinkles of pure love and humour. Undi electrifies, is at once vulnerable and completely indestructible. PS: That first Winnipeg poem has got to be our new hometown anthem.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e is poetic anti-gravity. Poetry of the lightest touch for the heftiest matters. And so lit by its poet’s willingness to tarry with the things only poetry can illuminate, its music blooms with defiant wit. Sharp, pointed, and sage about the world and its endangered moving parts, the great reward of Undi’s meticulous attention is ours to reap, whether it is trained close to home or beyond. But even more, Undi has proven herself an exquisite and needful diarist of the inextricability of Black being from love, from freedom, from the tangled, hurtful web of this modern life. At the core of this book is always the heart-stirring necessity of surprise. A queerly marvelous debut!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eWith searing wit, a tender hand, and a bird’s eye, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a smirk behind each word as alluring as it is intelligent. Melding the personal and the political, Undi’s poems understand Winnipeg streets as well as they know Supreme Court jurisprudence. High school crushes mingle with the evolution of birds—apologies with freedom—in a voice that represents both an astounding and curious achievement. ‘I am learning about property\/in a recent nation where no one looks me in the eye,’ she writes. ‘I wanted something\/too, to survive,\/besides my good name.’ \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e is a fight song for anyone in love with their broken city—its strange stores—and our dying earth, its betrayal and beauty. All of it, Undi demonstrates, worth noticing, worth cherishing, worth remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Sanna Wani, author of My Grief, the Sun","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis book marks the third consecutive season Anansi Poetry has featured a debut collection from a young Winnipeg poet (Brandi Bird, Hannah Green).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUndi was born and raised in Namibia, and did not arrive in Canada until the age of 13. As a result, her experiences of immigration, assimilation, discrimination, etc. in her new country are first hand, not inherited.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn terms of its touchstones the book is very local and regional. The book includes several “Manitoba” poems and even a cheeky list poem about the obligatory references that make for an accepted ‘Winnipeg’ poem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2024-04-02","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong \u003eMarked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"Poems","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Scientific Marvel
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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She makes the difficult connections between this national tragedy and the greater colonial systems that have endangered our most vulnerable for over a century, and she does it all with a keen, compassionate eye for all involved, especially the families who are too often overlooked. These stories need to be heard. These young people deserve nothing less than to be honoured everywhere.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette","OtherText_Accolades_1":"Seven Fallen Feathers may prove to be the most important book published in Canada in 2017. Tanya Talaga offers well-researched, difficult truths that expose the systemic racism, poverty, and powerlessness that contribute to the ongoing issues facing Indigenous youth, their families, and their communities. It is a call to action that deeply honours the lives of the seven young people; our entire nation should feel their loss profoundly.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Patti LaBoucane-Benson","OtherText_Accolades_2":"You simply must read this book. Tanya Talaga has done the hard work for us. She sat with the families, heard their stories. Now, with the keen eye and meticulous research of an uncompromising journalist, she is sharing their truths. We have to start listening. Parents are sending their children to school in Thunder Bay to watch them die. Racism, police indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude, lateral violence — it doesn’t have to be this way. Let this book enrage you — and then demand that Canada act now.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Duncan McCue","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s early April and the 2011 federal election is in full swing. All over Canada, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are duking it out with Jack Layton’s New Democrats and the struggling Liberals in a bid to win a majority government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m in Thunder Bay, Ontario, to see Stan Beardy, the Nishawbe-Aski Nation’s grand chief, to interview him for a story on why it is indigenous people never seem to vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe receptionist at the NAN’s office greets me and ushers me into a large, common meeting room to wait for Stan. Everything in the room is grey — the walls, the tubular plastic tables, the carpets. The only splash of colour is a large white flag with a bear on it that has been tacked to the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great White Bear stands in the centre of a red circle, in the middle of the flag. The white bear is the traditional symbol of the life of the North American Indian. The red circle background is symbolic of the Red Man. His feet are standing, planted firmly on the bottom line, representing the Earth while his head touches the top line, symbolic to his relationship to the Great Spirit in the sky. The bear is stretched out, arms and feet open wide, to show he has nothing to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are circles joining the bear’s rib cage. They are the souls of the people, indigenous songs, and legends. The circles are the ties that bind all the clans together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese circles also offer protection. Without them, the ribcage would expose the great bear’s beating heart and leave it open to harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan walks in and greets me warmly, his brown eyes twinkling as he takes a seat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan is pensive, quiet, and patient. He says nothing as he wearily leans back in his chair and waits for me to explain why exactly I flew 2,400 km north from Toronto to see him and talk about the federal election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI launch into my spiel, trying not to sound like a salesperson or an interloper into his world, someone who kind of belongs here and kind of does not. This is the curse of my mixed blood. I am the daughter of a half-Anish mom and a Polish father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI ramble off abysmal voting pattern statistics across Canada, while pointing out that in many ridings indigenous people could act as a swing vote, influencing that riding and hence the trajectory of the election.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan stares at me impassively. Non-plussed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo I start firing off some questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn’t go well. Every time I try to engage him, asking him about why indigenous people won’t get in the game and vote, he begins talking about the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Jordan Wabasse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a frustrating exchange, like we were speaking two different languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indigenous voters could influence fifty seats across the country if they got out and voted but they don’t. Why?” I ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Why aren’t you writing a story on Jordan Wabasse? He has been gone seventy-one days now,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stephen Harper has been no friend to indigenous people yet if everyone voted, they could swing the course of this election,” I continue, hoping he’ll bite at the sound of Harper’s name. The man is no friend of the Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“They found a shoe down by the water. Police think it might have been his,” replies Stan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis went on for a good fifteen minutes. I was annoyed. I knew a missing Grade 9 indigenous student in Thunder Bay would not make news in urban Toronto at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. I could practically see that election bus rolling away without me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen I remembered my manners and where I was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was sitting with the elected grand chief of 23,000 people and he was clearly trying to tell me something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tried a new tactic. I’d ask about Jordan and then I’d swing around and get him to talk about elections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Stan said: “Jordan is the seventh student to go missing or die while at school.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStan says their names: “Reggie Bushie. Jethro Anderson. Paul Panacheese. Curran Strang. Robyn Harper. Kyle Morrisseau. And now, Jordan Wabasse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe then tells me the seven were hundreds of miles away from their home communities and families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was forced to leave their reserve simply because there was no high school for them to attend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Going to high school is the right of every Canadian child,” says Stan, adding that these children are no different.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"[A]n urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by Indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families. . . . Talaga’s incisive research and breathtaking storytelling could bring this community one step closer to the healing it deserves.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_Review_1":"Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. . . . The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Publisher's Weekly","OtherText_Review_2":"What is happening in Thunder Bay is particularly destructive, but Talaga makes clear how Thunder Bay is symptomatic, not the problem itself. Recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Talaga’s is a book to be justly infuriated by.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"Tanya Talaga investigates the deaths of seven Indigenous teens in Thunder Bay — Jethro Anderson, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, Kyle Morrisseau, and Jordan Wabasse — searching for answers and offering a deserved censure to the authorities who haven’t investigated, or considered the contributing factors, nearly enough.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"National Post","OtherText_Review_4":"[W]here Seven Fallen Feathers truly shines is in Talaga’s intimate retellings of what families experience when a loved one goes missing, from filing a missing-persons report with police, to the long and brutal investigation process, to the final visit in the coroner’s office. It’s a heartbreaking portrait of an indifferent and often callous system . . . Seven Fallen Feathers is a must-read for all Canadians. 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Seven Fallen Feathers
The shocking true story of seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city over the span of seven years.
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Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.
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Two girls raised as sisters are separated by a series of tragedies, and forever they seek each other, the bonds of childhood forever etched in memory. The women in this novel are unforgettable, and I can't stop thinking of them. Jokha Alharthi is among my favorite novelists—and this book is transcendent.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Straight, author of \u003cem\u003eMecca\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIn the Country of Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Susan Straight, author of Mecca and In the Country of Women","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJokha Alharthi was the first Omani woman to have a novel translated into English, and \u003cem\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e was the first ever novel originally written in Arabic to win the Man Booker International Prize. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNever before has there been such interest in immigrant and international stories, as demonstrated by the success of books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Djamila Ibrahim, Irina Kovalyova, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ayelet Tsabari. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe works of Jokha Alharthi provide illuminating and fascinating glimpses into Omani history and culture, which are little known in the West. 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Silken Gazelles
An unforgettable story of friendship, love, and the impact of childhood from the first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
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Silver Repetition
A young Asian immigrant mends her fractured sense of self in this exquisite coming-of-age debut novel about family, grief, and identity.
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It will be years before this is fully realized by those who escape the scene or are thrown into adulthood by overdose or pregnancy. These lucky few will feel overwhelmingly, retroactively embarrassed by their one-time rock star fantasies. Olive can hear them bawling about their supposed betrayals as clouds of tobacco smoke and slurry syllables updraft skyward through the slightly parted window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Olive forgives them their make-believe follies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are no better or worse than most of the half well-off, half grown-up humans she has met. They are just flawed and vulnerable to the pitch. Olive is no different. She has chased the white dragon into smoky rooms where grad students complained about unkindly thesis feedback while wearing thousand dollar watches. A holiday-tanned winter wrist, a baggie held aloft, another Volvo fob serving key bumps round the ring. Under such circumstances, Olive is for the most part silent. She can pass for one of them until she releases language into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive often holds her rural tongue for fear of being found out. She is not a card-carrying member of the townie majority. And rarely are there other fugitive faces for Olive to hide behind on nights when she wants to get on the go. There was a Mexican painter once. A Russian musician. There was the one Pakistani fellow whose name Olive could never recall. She did not think it was unpronounceable, she just could not pronounce it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are lots of words still beyond her reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Olive can think of no words to describe the pain felt where her pants nearly meet her feet. She winces and tucks her chin farther inside her coat. She tries to push her neck back to save from catching skin in the zipper. She sniffs back hard and swallows a slippery lob. Her grandmother would not approve of hoarding mucus in the body but her grandmother would not approve of much of what she does lately. Olive sighs and swells and swallows spit to slide the lob along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOllie my dollie, get a tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer grandmother’s voice is always a program running in the back of her mind. But Olive can’t sacrifice a tissue on mere mucus this morning. Her store of napkins is running low and the last time she tried to hock and spit the wind gust blew snot back onto her sleeve. The line of mucus running from her lips to her elbow turned her weak stomach over. A middle-aged woman in a bright blue Canada Goose coat muttered oh for the love of god as she hurried past the translucent boundary. This made Olive feel gross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe swallows that gross feeling down again while she waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe can distract herself for a time from the damp soak settling in her heels by watching the craven-faced respectable people meander to their grown-up jobs after a weekend of pretending to be twenty-five. They are not twenty-five. They are not even thirty-five and feel as such. Most internally promise to stay home with the kids next weekend as they turn their faces to or from the sunshine depending on the quantity of painkillers ingested in the car. This temporary commitment to sobriety is bookended by revolving party systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome relish vitamin D while others resent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe division will not last long, though, as the sun already has started to duck back inside the nimbostratus. It will storm again today as surely as the nearly forty will go out again in four days’ time. The babysitter will be called. The cat will be let in. They will flee their houses for a little look around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGet the stink of house off ya.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. Except when it storms on Monday. Then quitting everything is pushed to Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday is such a Tuesday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe weekend warriors refuse to sell out and so have fully bought in pound for pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlive is just the same. She too had been sold the notion of party drugs as lazy fun and then fast gobbled them hand over fist. Swallow, snort, smoke; ingestion is an irrelevant matter of personal preference and ease. There is no wall to wall them out. Or in. Drug trends are trendingalong regardless of national media reports daily updating all on their progress east and upward. Olive has watched the same scenes play out on repeat in dark corners of the late night since arriving in Sin Jawns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they’ve gone and stashed the kits everywhere to protect against the siren call. A first line of defence kept behind wine bars. Under the bathroom sink. In purses. And Olive knows she must address the long list of reasons why self-medicare is needed to comfort her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually. \u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"The lure of Coles’s often glorious use of language and the importance of reading books that do exactly what Small Game Hunting does — force the reader to face truths that have been hidden and swept away for far too long, to be made uncomfortable and prompted to think rather than be simply entertained — are reason enough to give this up-and-coming author’s new work serious consideration.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_1":"What recommends this novel most is the way its author stays with her characters’ hurt, how she holds it without reverence but understands how those wounds can motivate like nothing else . . . Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club is a dark, taut, funny novel that feels for its characters’ pain while remaining caustic toward the enablers and the kinds of violence that polite society allows.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2":"A profound read, offering up perfectly crafted sentences in the thoughts of the motley cast of characters.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Canadian Living","OtherText_Review_3":"Although Small Game Hunting is often tragic and heartbreaking, its finale offers a glimmer of hope that we are invited to be brave and wait for. The hope that sees women, both tattered and changed by the work of male violence and power, not at a loss for agency or warmth. In the end, Coles’s powerful novel is a tale of resilience.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Rabble.ca","OtherText_Review_4":"Early in Small Game Hunting, a Nigerian immigrant asks the heroine about her true origins: ‘You don’t look all white,’ he says. In other words, this is not your traditional Newfoundland novel of social isolation. Instead, Megan Gail Coles portrays the harsh existence of the islanders as emblematic of the human condition itself. The characters’ lives unfold around a fine restaurant. They are physically and emotionally crippled by their society’s devastating inequalities, the women psychologically maimed by repeated sexual assault. Coles’s narrator storms against the status quo in a kinetic novel that dazzles, challenges, and exhilarates.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation","OtherText_Review_5":"Beautifully fluid writing pulls the reader right in and keeps them gliding along. Fans of Rene Denfeld, Alice Sebold, and Eowyn Ivey will want to check this book out.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Booklist","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Nominated","PrizeCodeText_3":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"07","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"07","PrizeCode_3":"03","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeName_0":"Scotiabank Giller Prize","PrizeName_1":"BMO Winterset Award","PrizeName_2":"CBC Canada Reads","PrizeName_3":"A Globe and Mail Book of the Year","PrizeName_4":"#1 National Bestseller","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-02-12","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel exposes class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.
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Soft as Bones
A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing.
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His photographs have appeared in magazines such as \u003cem\u003eCanadian Geographic, Nature Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOutdoor Life\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Russell, Charles (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA classic work of nature and wildlife, \u003ci\u003eSpirit Bear\u003c\/i\u003e is the captivating story of wilderness guide and naturalist Charles Russell’s quest to understand the rare spirit bear of British Columbia’s Princess Royal Island — now updated and reissued with a new design and an afterword by the author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom early experiences observing black bears in the Rocky Mountains with his father, the well-known writer and broadcaster Andy Russell, to nerve-racking encounters with grizzlies in British Columbia’s Khutzeymateen Valley, Charles Russell has spent a lifetime studying bears in their natural habitat. In 1991, Russell visited Princess Royal Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of British Columbia. There, amidst the rivers and trees of the western rainforest, he encountered the elusive spirit bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown to scientists as the Kermode bear and to the public as the white, ghost, or spirit bear, these extraordinary animals have never been exposed to civilization. In \u003ci\u003eSpirit Bear\u003c\/i\u003e, Russell recounts his experiences on Princess Royal Island — trekking over rocks and through streams; waiting hours for the evasive ghost bear to appear; and finally coming face-to-face with a spirit bear only inches from his nose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with more than 100 stunning colour photographs, \u003ci\u003eSpirit Bear\u003c\/i\u003e provides beautiful and astonishing insight into the habits and nature of the Kermode bear, and is part of an ongoing effort by conservationists to save Princess Royal Island as a sanctuary for these remarkable animals.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487002091","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487002091\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"10","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"conservation; environmentalism; climate change; nature; animals; western canada; pacific ocean; great bear rainforest; indigenous peoples; poaching; deforestation; canadian animals; nature photography; wildlife; outdoors; mountains; grizzlies; polar bear; canlit; zoology; photographs; afterward; grizzly man; bear; spirit of the wild; haida gwaii; islands of the people; jennifer harrington; planet earth; reference; nonficion; nature lover; gifts for dad","NumberOfPages":"152","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eConservation efforts for the Great Bear Rainforest are being covered in mainstream media. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePrince William and Princess Kate endorsed the Great Bear Rainforest, home of the spirit bear, for protection under the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eI could scarcely believe what I was experiencing. Here was a wild bear, of fearsome lore, examining me and my trappings as though I were a novelty, a cousin from the big city come to visit — an object of curiosity, but definitely not something to fear, or to eat for that matter.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and afterword by the author.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2017-05-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and afterword by the author.","Subtitle":"Encounters with the White Bear of the Western Rainforest","Width":"8","WidthCode":"in"}
Spirit Bear
A classic work of Canadian nature and wildlife — updated and reissued with a new design and afterword by the author.
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{"id":7055525543995,"title":"Tauhou","handle":"tauhou","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-12-06T09:13:21-05:00","created_at":"2022-12-06T09:09:55-05:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult BIPOC Voices","By (author) Nuttall Kōtuku Titihuia","House of Anansi Press","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2023-04-11"],"price":1999,"price_min":1999,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41003629150267,"title":"hardcover jacket","option1":"hardcover jacket","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011697","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - hardcover jacket","public_title":"hardcover jacket","options":["hardcover jacket"],"price":2499,"weight":313,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487011697","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41003630821435,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487011703","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tauhou - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1999,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487011703","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90f39110-9cd4-40bb-8e45-36cd8f0673dc.jpg?v=1715482008"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90f39110-9cd4-40bb-8e45-36cd8f0673dc.jpg?v=1715482008","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24534616735803,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":2400,"width":1538,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90f39110-9cd4-40bb-8e45-36cd8f0673dc.jpg?v=1715482008"},"aspect_ratio":0.641,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_90f39110-9cd4-40bb-8e45-36cd8f0673dc.jpg?v=1715482008","width":1538}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. 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Once you emerge from \u003cem \u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e’s narrative depths, you'll miss its imagination, its rhythms, its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly written in the best of Māori and Coast Salish practices of story, \u003cem\u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is teeming with possibility, love, and dreaming otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003eA work of great significance, integrity, craft, and poise.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Alison Whittaker, author of Blakwork","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003eKōtuku Titihuia Nuttall takes threads made from all the colours of the Indigenous experience and crosses them over oceans, cultures, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Tayi Tibble, author of Poukahangatus and Rangikura","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003eKōtuku Titihuia Nuttall’s \u003cem \u003eTauhou \u003c\/em\u003eis a brilliant example of what language can do when forged with intentional hands and a fantastic mind. Nuttall’s work binds words in a way that doesn’t hold too tightly but steadfastly contains the many Ancestors present in Nuttall’s life and work, weaving together a tapestry of nuance and witnessing. Masterful dialogue and rich scenes move emotions like the currents around Aotearoa and the Salish Seas, a beautiful display of lyricism that loudly proclaims that Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall belongs in the crescendo of rising voices in CanLit. \u003cem \u003eTauhou \u003c\/em\u003eis not a collection to miss!\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"jaye simpson, author of it was never going to be okay","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eExciting, hybrid work! This novel plays with genre and form to create an intriguing hybrid work that incorporates elements of poetry, memoir, and fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs well as being Māori, Kōtuku is Coast Salish (W̱SÁNEĆ) on her father’s side, the author spent her elementary school years on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe speculative fiction genre has recently gained not only popularity but literary prestige. Indigenous futurism and speculative fiction play a significant role in the landscape of writers like Cherie Dimaline, Eden Robinson, David A. Robertson, and so many more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003eThis one’s for the lovers of language, lean prose-poetry you can dip in and out of and think about for hours. Best read beside a large body of water.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Auth":"Kete Books","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Woman Magazine","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e[A nuanced portrait] of complicated maternal legacies and the structures — both natural and built — through which those legacies are lived and remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Woman Magazine","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"EVENT Magazine","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003eCalling this a novel makes a profound statement about how story is community … \u003cem\u003eTauhou \u003c\/em\u003efocalizes a complex network of relationships between families, friends, and even the locales, flora, and fauna they live among. This novel is not structured upon the familiar beats of narrative arc, and it certainly isn’t structured around conflict, though the ongoing struggles of colonialism stalk its periphery. Rather, \u003cem\u003eTauhou \u003c\/em\u003eis shaped like a spiderweb whose delicate, and sometimes broken, strands of connectivity are being revealed, and even rebuilt, in the telling.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"CAROUSEL","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003eMore than merely inventive, \u003cem \u003eTauhou’\u003c\/em\u003es geography is a visionary response to the grievous losses of colonization. … Nuttall’s story logic works by accretion, and she has rewards in store for readers willing to forgo the familiar comforts of narrative. … [A] deeply moving book.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"West Trade Review","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003eProfoundly hopeful, invested in futurity and the possibilities that come from solidarity, coalition-building, and community. … \u003cem \u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e successfully proves that a novel need not follow one plot or one set of characters to be wonderfully compelling. … Casting off convention, Nuttall confidently shows that to address the ongoing legacies of colonialism, we must change how we think of the future, art, and what is possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Miramichi Reader","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e stretches the geographic imaginary beyond land and into generations — not just through time or history but by envisioning land through past, present, and future lineages. … Through recreating geographic boundaries, Nuttall has found a way to understand the complexities of a person’s relationship to their culture spatially.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Varsity","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem \u003eTauhou\u003c\/em\u003e is a search for answers, of finding ways to live with the truth. Some of the stories are like fables, others like poetry, and all are a sheer joy to read. A longing for home resonates, a gift for those of us searching for our island also.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Kete Books","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2023-04-11","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A Novel","Width":"5","WidthCode":"in"}
Tauhou
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent.
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We need more Native voices and role models like him to help empower and inspire the next generation of Indigenous chefs!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eSean Sherman, chef\/founder, the Sioux Chef™ and the Indigenous Food Lab, and co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Sean Sherman, chef\/founder, the Sioux Chef™ and the Indigenous Food Lab, and co-author of The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Shane understands the cultural importance of food. For him, cooking is a ceremonial act and an act of respect — for the land we use, the animals we eat, and the people who share our tables. We all need to think more about this aspect of our food, and tawâw will help make that happen.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eAlessandro Porcelli, founder and director of Cook It Raw\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Alessandro Porcelli, founder and director of Cook It Raw","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"Chef Shane Chartrand greets life with open arms and a sense of discovery that translates into one of the most inspirational and deeply personal food books I’ve ever read. tawâw is poised to become a must-have classic in any serious culinary library.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eAnita Stewart, chef, author, and founder of Food Day Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Anita Stewart, chef, author, and founder of Food Day Canada","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"I first met Shane during a chef’s retreat in Kananaskis Country, surrounded by the majesty of the Rocky Mountains. Through him, I learned the importance of traditional Indigenous thinking and approaches to food, which continues to influence and guide the uniqueness of Albertan cuisine today. I’m so happy that Shane and Jennifer have captured these ideas in tawâw for us all to savour. Bravo!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eJamie Kennedy, chef\/founder, Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, and author of \u003cem\u003eJ.K.: The Jamie Kennedy Cookbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Jamie Kennedy, chef\/founder, Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, and author of J.K.: The Jamie Kennedy Cookbook","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Chef Chartrand’s recipes are like the food he serves: each dish is a delicious journey that connects us to nêhiyaw\/Métis ways of life. tawâw draws us in the way Shane welcomes us into his restaurant — with warmth, good stories, and an abundance of great food.\" — \u003cstrong\u003ePatti LaBoucane-Benson, director of research at the Native Counselling Services of Alberta, and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outside Circle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Patti LaBoucane-Benson, director of research at the Native Counselling Services of Alberta, and author of The Outside Circle","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"I have always respected Shane’s focus, dedication to his craft, and pride for his Indigenous culture, heritage, and food. Shane understands the need to tell his stories, to have them heard, and to make them delicious. With tawâw, he has placed his stamp firmly on the future of food in this country.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eNed Bell, chef, TV personality, and author of \u003cem\u003eLure: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Ned Bell, chef, TV personality, and author of Lure: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West Coast","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"Beautiful aesthetically and altruistically … [tawâw] is deeply entertaining, combining elements of historic truths that are sometimes difficult to accept with a delightful story of a young person finding a calling in the culinary world.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGonzo Okanagan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Gonzo Okanagan","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARD WINNING CHEF:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eShane M. 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Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine.
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The Accusation
A major publishing phenomenon, The Accusation by anonymous North Korean writer Bandi is the first piece of fiction to come out of North Korea.
