{"product_id":"pejorative-jason-butterfield-9781069863409","title":"Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if the erasure of your country didn't begin with war, but with paperwork, pipelines, and polite silence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a \u003cstrong\u003ehauntingly plausible\u003c\/strong\u003e speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental \"unity,\" the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud-Jason Butterfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a logistical deployment after Alberta's secession vote becomes something far darker: a euphemistic occupation, a nation rebranded, and a culture erased not through violence, but through narrative control. As Jason, a reservist turned memory hoarder, descends into the underground, he compiles stories from those silenced, displaced, or disappeared by the Unity regime. From blacklisted teachers and Indigenous resistance leaders to smuggled radio poets and burned librarians, their voices form a mosaic of truth that was nearly lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later, long after Jason's final signal flickers out in the north, Dr. Isabel Sanz of the North American Truth and Documentation Initiative reconstructs his archive. What emerges is not just a history, it's a warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, and World War Z, Pejorative is a genre-blending novel of resistance, memory, and the quiet brutality of forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Butterfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1069863408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781069863409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Office for Post-Annexation Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.96d","brand":"Jason Butterfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487476101375,"sku":"9781069863409","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_525fec4c-f2c4-4c42-8079-089d9d7da8eb.jpg?v=1778060665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pejorative-jason-butterfield-9781069863409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}