{"product_id":"black-water-family-legacy-and-blood-memory","title":"Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n A Quill \u0026amp; Quire Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n A Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter\u003cbr\u003e\n “An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open\u003cbr\u003e\n and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,\u003cbr\u003e\n identity and love.” —Cherie Dimaline\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n In this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away\u003cbr\u003e\n from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the family\u003cbr\u003e\n trapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but\u003cbr\u003e\n creates a new future\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n The son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A.\u003cbr\u003e\n Robertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. His\u003cbr\u003e\n father, Dulas—or Don, as he became known—lived on the trapline in the bush in\u003cbr\u003e\n Manitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, where\u003cbr\u003e\n he couldn’t speak his language, Swampy Cree, in school with his friends unless\u003cbr\u003e\n in secret. David’s mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town that had no\u003cbr\u003e\n Indigenous people until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. They\u003cbr\u003e\n married and had three sons, whom they raised unconnected to their Indigenous history.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n David grew up without his father’s teachings or any knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\n of his early experiences. All he had was “blood memory”: the pieces of his\u003cbr\u003e\n identity ingrained in the fabric of his DNA, pieces that he has spent a lifetime\u003cbr\u003e\n putting together. It has been the journey\u003cbr\u003e\n of a young man becoming closer to who he is, who his father is and who they are\u003cbr\u003e\n together, culminating in a trip back to the trapline to reclaim their\u003cbr\u003e\n connection to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Black Water is a memoir about intergenerational trauma and\u003cbr\u003e\n healing, about connection and about how Don’s life informed David’s own. Facing\u003cbr\u003e\n up to a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey\u003cbr\u003e\n together back to the trapline at Black Water and through the past to create a\u003cbr\u003e\n new future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":51106201993463,"sku":"YSL416","price":9.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/4254\/8727\/files\/ebook_416_39ac4eae80.jpg?v=1788408900","url":"https:\/\/kidobook.store\/products\/black-water-family-legacy-and-blood-memory","provider":"KidoBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}