{"product_id":"9780771002014","title":"Empty Spaces","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed, boundary-breaking author of \u003ci\u003eNISHGA \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text \u003ci\u003eThe Last of the Mohicans \u003c\/i\u003efrom the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor, the successive chapters of \u003ci\u003eEmpty Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e move toward an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJordan Abel’s extraordinary debut work of fiction grows out of his groundbreaking visual compositions in \u003ci\u003eNISHGA\u003c\/i\u003e, which integrated descriptions of the landscape from Cooper’s settler classic\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003einto his father's traditional Nisga'a artwork. In \u003ci\u003eEmpty Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, Abel reinscribes those words on the page itself, subjecting them to bold rewritings and inviting us to come to a crucial understanding: that the land knows everything that can and will happen, even as our world lurches toward uncertainty.","brand":"Jordan Abel (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Paper over boards","offer_id":49979265220965,"sku":"9780771002014","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_45f95d39-cd76-481a-b02d-cf537a0c3991.jpg?v=1759417276","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780771002014","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}