{"product_id":"9780735247529","title":"real ones","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant.... healing and eye-opening.\" —Michelle Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJune and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined she’d end up: back home in Winnipeg with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then into lyn and June’s busy lives a bomb drops: their estranged and very white mother, Renee, is called out as a “pretendian.” Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renee had topped the charts in the Canadian art world for winning awards and recognition for her Indigenous-style work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma come rippling to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prose so powerful it could strike a match, \u003ci\u003ereal ones\u003c\/i\u003e is written with the same signature wit and heart on display in \u003ci\u003eThe Break\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Circle\u003c\/i\u003e. An energetic, probing and ultimately hopeful story, \u003ci\u003ereal ones\u003c\/i\u003e pays homage to the long-fought, hard-won battles of Michif (Métis) people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isn’t Métis.","brand":"katherena vermette (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49979277115749,"sku":"9780735247529","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5f85b4b2-6756-4deb-9240-d9cf65b2ba11.jpg?v=1759417777","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780735247529","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}