{"product_id":"9781039013636-1","title":"Bones of a Giant","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of \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 complicated coming of age in a world of racism and hardship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer, 1968.\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis mother, Grace, has gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put proper plumbing into the three-room shack they share on the reserve, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his aunt, uncle and cousins on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is so different from his own—almost enough to counter the pressures he feels growing up in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks, women 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis has vowed never to be like his father—but a sexual encounter with a predatory older woman tests his resolve. Worse, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal Grace's land. And then, at summer's end, shocking revelations shake the family, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith so many traps laid for him, can Lewis find a path to a different future?","brand":"Brian Thomas Isaac (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47050678632636,"sku":"9781039013636","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_37222c55-2dec-48d6-8a08-723613a6a842.jpg?v=1783088191","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9781039013636-1","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}