{"product_id":"9781487011420","title":"River Meets the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAn enthralling nautical epic, \u003cem\u003eRiver Meets the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo in the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA natural-born storyteller, Ronny is a left-handed “alley mutt” without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere — most powerfully, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lō River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Sri Lanka, Chandra is a Tamil boy with “skin like a charred eggplant” who finds his haven from the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMoving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachael Moorthy (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45413201707306,"sku":"9781487011420","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0112\/1065\/3760\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5529e8f1-fb9e-4c66-96d5-a9695983d354.jpg?v=1710327340","url":"https:\/\/onceuponabookstore.ca\/products\/9781487011420","provider":"Once Upon a Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}