{"product_id":"a-minor-chorus","title":"A Minor Chorus","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt’s unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack’s life parallels the narrator’s own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53248691536238,"sku":"9780735242029","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0884\/7448\/5102\/files\/9780735242029.jpg?v=1769620961","url":"https:\/\/wildwoodbookstore.ca\/products\/a-minor-chorus","provider":"Wildwood Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}