{"product_id":"thinning-blood-a-memoir-of-family-myth-and-identity-myers-leah-hardcover","title":"Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity -- Leah Myers, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her \"culture is being bleached out,\" offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naive childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrisp and powerful, \u003cem\u003eThinning Blood\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leah Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.85w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324036708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/2023","brand":"Myers, Leah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43952306290916,"sku":"9781324036708","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/41672JDqNwL.jpg?v=1719529452","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/thinning-blood-a-memoir-of-family-myth-and-identity-myers-leah-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}