{"product_id":"9781897289761","title":"North End Love Songs","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brother's disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of love—where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eNorth End Love Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette’s love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us.\"—Joanne Arnott\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"From a mixed-blood Métis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It’s a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you.\"—Duncan Mercredi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039936004336,"sku":"9781897289761","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897289761_p0.jpg?v=1763610768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897289761","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}