{"product_id":"this-house-is-not-a-home-9781773635620","title":"This House Is Not a Home","description":"\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn intergenerational coming-of-age novel, This House Is Not a Home follows Kǫ̀, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third book from acclaimed Dene, Cree and Metis writer Katlįà, This House Is Not a Home is 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatlįà is a Dene woman from the Northwest Territories. Previously serving as a councillor for her First Nation, Yellowknives Dene, she is an activist, poet and columnist and law student in Indigeous Legal Orders. Katlįà writes about Indigenous injustices with a focus on the North. Katlįà's first novel, Land-Water-Sky, won the NorthWoods Book Awards (2021)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Roseway Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389196079378,"sku":"9781773635620","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_223dae3b-f992-4e6c-a7f6-5d7ea77cc7e8.jpg?v=1728917241","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-house-is-not-a-home-9781773635620","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}