{"product_id":"a-history-of-my-brief-body","title":"A History of My Brief Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Lambda Literary Award, Finalist \/ \"A Best Book of 2020\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCBC\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e, Largehearted Boy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning... Happiness, this beautiful book says, is the ultimate act of resistance.\" --Michelle Hart, \u003cem\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, \u003ci\u003eA History of My Brief Body\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Billy-Ray Belcourt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44441088786668,"sku":"9781937512934","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781937512934.jpg?v=1720117745","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/a-history-of-my-brief-body","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}