{"product_id":"this-house-is-not-a-home","title":"This House Is Not a Home","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten by Katlià, a Dene woman from the Northwest Territories, who previously served as a councillor for her First Nation, Yellowknives Dene. She is an activist, poet and columnist and law student in Indigenous Legal Orders. Katlià writes about Indigenous injustices with a focus on the North. Katlià’s first novel, Land-Water-Sky, won the NorthWoods Book Awards (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada’s north return to nothing but an empty space where their home once stood. Finding themselves suddenly homeless, they have no choice but to assimilate into settler-colonial society in a mining town that has encroached on their freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn intergenerational coming-of-age novel,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis House Is Not a Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows Ko`, a Dene man who grew up entirely on the land before being taken to residential school. When he finally returns home, he struggles to connect with his family: his younger brother whom he has never met, his mother because he has lost his language, and an absent father whose disappearance he is too afraid to question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe third book from acclaimed Dene, Cree and Metis writer Katlià,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis House Is Not a Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a fictional story based on true events. Visceral and embodied, heartbreaking and spirited, this book presents a clear trajectory of how settlers dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their land — and how Indigenous communities, with dignity and resilience, continue to live and honour their culture, values, inherent knowledge systems, and Indigenous rights towards re-establishing sovereignty. Fierce and unflinching, this story is a call for land back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernwood Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394798235953,"sku":"zka1789932669917","price":10.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/0925\/7009\/files\/this-house-is-not-a-home_1.jpg?v=1789932674","url":"https:\/\/canistersealfit.shop\/products\/this-house-is-not-a-home","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}