Making Love with the Land
Author | : Joshua Whitehead |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2024-06-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780735278882 |
ISBN-13 | : 0735278881 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Download or read book Making Love with the Land written by Joshua Whitehead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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, 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.” 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 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? 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 be unearthed and summoned into word.