{"product_id":"a-history-of-my-brief-body-9781937512934","title":"A History of My Brief Body","description":"\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of \u003ci\u003eHeart Berries\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEye-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937512934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Billy-Ray Belcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259590439093,"sku":"9781937512934","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_87200c89-d9fc-4c6f-a1b8-841a75bef704.jpg?v=1771342358","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-history-of-my-brief-body-9781937512934","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}