{"product_id":"9781948226462","title":"Spirit Run : A 6,000-Mile Marathon through North America's Stolen Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Growing up in Raymond Carver country-Yakima, Washington-Noé lvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who \"slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.\" Escape came in the form of a university scholarship, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, lvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American\/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys,epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across a North America older than its present political borders. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, lvarez writes about a four-month-long journey that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear-dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion-but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, lvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and-against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit-the dream of a liberated future\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48222573723883,"sku":"EB_SP0600_G08-02_SIMS","price":45.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781948226462-1.jpg?v=1781713407","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781948226462","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}