{"product_id":"bones-of-a-giant","title":"Bones of a Giant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Thomas Isaac \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Quiet Places\u003c\/i\u003e, comes Brian Thomas Isaac's highly anticipated, haunting and tender return to the Okanagan Indian Reserve and a teenager's struggle to become a man in a world of racism and hardship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer, 1968.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier—either a runaway or dead by his own hand—sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother, Grace, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they’ve built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women are left to carry the load, sometimes with kindness, but often with the bitterness, anger and ferocity of his own mother, who kicked Lewis’s lowlife father, Jimmy, to the curb long ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLewis has vowed never to be like his father—but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then, at summer's end, more shocking revelations shake the family, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith so many traps laid around him, how will Lewis find a path to a different future?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49821449814302,"sku":"9781039011779","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/3584\/9246\/files\/9781039011779.jpg?v=1747919070","url":"https:\/\/www.cedarcanoebooks.com\/products\/bones-of-a-giant","provider":"Cedar Canoe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}