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A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world

In prose that is evocative and sensual unabashedly queer and visceral raw and autobiographical Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain coping with trauma Deeply rooted within he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of storytelling he calls biostorybeyond genre and entirely sovereign Through this narrative perspective Making Love with the Land recasts mental health struggles and our complex emotional landscapes from a nefarious parasite on his and our wellbeing to kin even a relation no matter what difficulties they present to us Whitehead ruminates on loss and pain without shame or ridicule but rather highlights waypoints for personal transformation Written in the aftermath of heartbreak before and during the pandemic Making Love with the Land illuminates this present moment in which both Indigenous and nonIndigenous people are rediscovering old ways and creating new ones about connection with and responsibility toward each other and the land

Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantlyeven joyfullymaps his experience on the land that has shaped stories histories and bodies from time immemorial