{"product_id":"noopiming-book-leanne-simpson-9781517911256","title":"Noopiming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eAs We Have Always Done\u003c\/i\u003e, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's \u003ci\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/i\u003e braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMashkawaji (they\/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the seven characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator's will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman, their conscience; Sabe, a gentle giant, their marrow; Adik, the caribou, their nervous system; and Asin and Lucy, the humans who represent their eyes, ears, and brain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimpson's book \u003ci\u003eAs We Have Always Done\u003c\/i\u003e argued for the central place of storytelling in imagining radical futures. \u003ci\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/i\u003e (Anishinaabemowin for \"in the bush\") enacts these ideas. The novel's characters emerge from deep within Abinhinaabeg thought to commune beyond an unnatural urban-settler world littered with SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, and Fjällräven Kånken backpacks. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, \u003ci\u003eNoopiming\u003c\/i\u003e offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits--and the daily work of healing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49505391345937,"sku":"GOR013031145","price":22.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50185242902801,"sku":"CIN1517911257G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106620043537,"sku":"CIN1517911257VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1517911257.jpg?v=1764842752","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/noopiming-book-leanne-simpson-9781517911256","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}