{"product_id":"red-rooms-9781926886176","title":"Red Rooms","description":"Naomi, an Indigenous chambermaid in a busy downtown hotel, amuses herself by imagining the past, present and future lives of five hotel guests, whom she observed in passing, in the hotel lobby and through relics left in their rooms. Struck by their remains, their footprints and their clues, Naomi patches them together to weave tales of infatuation, love, infidelity, illness, death and family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRed Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e, Naomi tells the tales of the young prostitute and her invasive spirits, the terminally ill couture collector, the photographer looking for homegrown identity in foreign lands, the businesswoman who discovers the diary of a jingle-dress dancer and a woman emerging from an obsessive affair. They all check in for a temporary stay, living out complicated lives in these simple spaces. Strung together through Naomi's narration, the stories in \u003ci\u003eRed Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e portray a complex and beautiful urban Indigenous community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimaline, Cherie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCherie Dimaline\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Métis author and editor whose award-winning fiction has been published and anthologized internationally. Her novels include \u003cem\u003eRed Rooms, The Girl Who Grew A Galaxy, A Gentle Habit, The Marrow Thieves \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eEmpire of Wild\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2014, she was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and became the first Indigenous Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library. Her young adult novel \u003cem\u003eThe Marrow Thieves\u003c\/em\u003e has won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and, among other honors, was a fan favorite in the 2018 edition of CBC's Canada Reads. It was also a Book of the Year on numerous lists including\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eNPR\u003cem\u003e, School Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the New York Public Library, the \u003cem\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e and the CBC. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, she now lives in Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theytus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476151472402,"sku":"9781926886176","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fee336d-f612-4cb6-a553-c486fcd32d45.jpg?v=1730244934","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/red-rooms-9781926886176","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}