{"product_id":"9781443457774_black-water","title":"Black Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/em\u003e 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter\u003cp\u003e“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open\u003cbr\u003eand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,\u003cbr\u003eidentity and love.” —Cherie Dimaline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up away\u003cbr\u003efrom his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to the family\u003cbr\u003etrapline and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but\u003cbr\u003ecreates a new future\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe son of a Cree father and a white mother, David A.\u003cbr\u003eRobertson grew up with virtually no awareness of his Indigenous roots. His\u003cbr\u003efather, Dulas—or Don, as he became known—lived on the trapline in the bush in\u003cbr\u003eManitoba, only to be transplanted permanently to a house on the reserve, where\u003cbr\u003ehe couldn’t speak his language, Swampy Cree, in school with his friends unless\u003cbr\u003ein secret. David’s mother, Beverly, grew up in a small Manitoba town that had no\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous people until Don arrived as the new United Church minister. They\u003cbr\u003emarried and had three sons, whom they raised unconnected to their Indigenous history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid grew up without his father’s teachings or any knowledge\u003cbr\u003eof his early experiences. All he had was “blood memory”: the pieces of his\u003cbr\u003eidentity ingrained in the fabric of his DNA, pieces that he has spent a lifetime\u003cbr\u003eputting together. It has been the journey\u003cbr\u003eof a young man becoming closer to who he is, who his father is and who they are\u003cbr\u003etogether, culminating in a trip back to the trapline to reclaim their\u003cbr\u003econnection to the land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Water \u003c\/em\u003eis a memoir about intergenerational trauma and\u003cbr\u003ehealing, about connection and about how Don’s life informed David’s own. Facing\u003cbr\u003eup to a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey\u003cbr\u003etogether back to the trapline at Black Water and through the past to create a\u003cbr\u003enew future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David A. Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007006752917,"sku":"9781443457774","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781443457774.jpg?v=1776889966","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781443457774_black-water","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}