{"product_id":"kaasteek-the-burning-woods-9798348362089","title":"Kaasteek - The Burning Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Da Ka Xeen Clark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Silent Drum Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Silent Drum Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - Indigenous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe language has returned. Now the people must decide how to carry it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the events of \u003cem\u003eThe Listening Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, Kaasteek has become more than a woman who listens. She has become a living center of return - a witness to language moving back into the world, into children, gatherings, paths, fires, and ordinary hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what begins between people does not stay simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, the fifth book of the Kaasteek Saga and the second book of the adult trilogy, the community enters a season of quiet fracture. No one declares a war. No one begins by choosing a side. Instead, a pot leans. A path lowers. A hand reaches too late. A bowl waits in the wrong place. A fire still burns, but no longer gathers everyone the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs language spreads beyond Kaasteek, people begin to interpret what it means, who should guide it, who should protect it, and who should be trusted when uncertainty grows. Care becomes arrangement. Arrangement becomes expectation. Expectation becomes belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd belief, once it has a place to stand, is not easily moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in Tlingit land, language, and worldview, \u003cem\u003eThe Burning Woods\u003c\/em\u003e is a mythic literary novel about community, return, responsibility, and the danger of trying to control what can only live between people. It is a story of fire and path, silence and correction, belonging and division - where every small gesture teaches the next body what is allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woods do not burn all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey burn slowly first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silent Drum Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47883365449879,"sku":"9798348362089","price":7751.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798348362089.webp?v=1781101435","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/kaasteek-the-burning-woods-9798348362089","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}