{"product_id":"jonny-appleseedbooks","title":"Jonny Appleseed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 CANADA READS WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reserve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine\" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit\/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOff the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the \"rez\"--and his former life--to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonny Appleseed\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique, shattering vision of First Nations life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Whitehead, Joshua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":43476935606496,"sku":"","price":11.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ea005f7a-8eb1-4704-ad97-21471b2d91db.jpg?v=1664653598","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/jonny-appleseedbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}